Oil+Impact


 * Oil Impact on Iraq War**



[|The United States] has been in Iraq for four years now. We have suffered a great loss of soldiers ovrer the course of years. America has reason to complain of why we're still in Iraq. One of the reasons why we are in Iraq is because of the oil there. I think part of the reason why [|President Bush] sent out troops to Iraq was to gain oil. He helps Iraq so he can get oil rather than helping other countries such as Rwanda that could use a lot of help from the United States. Oil is not such a necessity that our troops have to be in the in Iraq for four years. We should be in other countries helping them bring their society back and help bring back their peace in their society.



The [|oil impact] from the Iraq War has changed the American society in a huge way. Prices have gone up dramatically. http://zfacts.com/p/361.html. This article states that Iraq's oil production was 900,000 before the war. They gave us a big chunk of their oil. Now that we've been at war, there have been great increases into the prices of oil. The United States has never got back to the amount of barrells that we used to be at before the war. We now take 1.5 million barrells a day instead of 900,000 barrells a day. "All the oil experts talk about Iraq pushing the price up, but know one knows by how much. For comparison, the Dept. of Energy tells us that total world output is expected to grow by 0.8M barrels/day in 2008." http://zfacts.com/p/361.html.

Being in Iraq makes our army and George Bush very [|imperialistic]. We go into Iraq and take oil from them as well as their culture. We cant take things from them like that and not expect to be criticized as imperialist. We act like imperialist and destroy their culture while we have so much back in America. The United States government is just using them and do not really want to help them. We have stop acting like imperialist and start doing the right thing which is helping them for the right reasons and being the country that we are destined to be. The [|War in Iraq] has to be stopped and should be over. We should not continue to send troops gain more oil than we need to, and therefore pay more for gas. The United States government and George Bush in his entirety needs to get the troops from Iraq out which will therefore lead us to cheaper prices of gas and will form more peace within the nation. Citizens will not criticize Bush and will be happy that they don't have to pay $5 per gallon for gas.