Did these people influence Bush's decision to go into Iraq for oil?
550556
Try the word flip-flop. The bottom line is the US put Saddam in power. We made a mistake. Now we should clean up our mess.
75759
The people at Halliburton need American soldiers on the ground to protect the oil wells.\n\nWe have to put up with this because the crazy christians who voted for President Bush are more concerned about preventing abortions and gay marriage than the lives of American soldiers.\n\nRepublican voters are willing to pay a lot.
926468
wow,thats amazeing, wot a contrast .....i knew haliburotn were in iraq to grab iraqi oil for its own purposes and not to help with the reconstruction.
256586
I think the decision to go to war had already been made, and then the intelligence commumity was sent out to get a reason.\nThey collected all the good and bad intelligence and used it as a way to convince congress to approve.\n   Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Pearle planned the invasion of Iraq when they were in Bush Sr.administration.  They were pulled up short by Bush Sr. who knew what it would take to occupy a stable Iraq and not descend into chaos.  Bush Jr. is just a lap-dog to Cheney and the other neocons.
979663
Not much different ... Iraq is a tough call though ...I think that the collection of advisors and administration personnel who were in this Whitehouse in 2002-2003 sent us to war there.  In a Quale administration it would be a safe bet to say that most of those folks would be in his administration as well.  What the outcome would have been is a different story.
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PROOF - WAR ON IRAQ IS FOR OIL\n\nBush decided to invade Iraq in April 2001, six months before September 11th, and the official reason was to improve Western access to Iraqi oil.\n\n      "President Bush's Cabinet agreed in April 2001 that 'Iraq remains\n      a destabilising influence to the flow of oil to international markets\n      from the Middle East' and because this is an unacceptable risk to\n      the US 'military intervention' is necessary."[1] \n\nThe decision for military action had nothing to do with 9/11, the war on terrorism, the UN weapons inspections, weapons of mass destruction, Iraqi human rights, or any of the factors that the US government would like you to believe are the true motives for war.\n\nThe only people who will benefit from the war on Iraq are the elite wealthy oil men who finance Bush's election campaigns, and people like Bush who have huge personal investments in the oil industry. Oil company profits have already increased by fifty percent this year because of the war, and the invasion hasn't even started yet!\n\n      "Profits in the fourth quarter soared 50% to $4.09bn (£2.5bn),\n      beating analyst expectations."[2] \n\nWar-time propaganda tells you what you want to hear; that your politicians have noble motives for the war on Iraq.
709084
There is oil in Iraq and the US wanted it.
178603
None, It would not effect them in any way. We take oil now from Alaska and export it to Europe, best price. The energy companies wrote the legislation for republicans in Congress to rubber stamp. It's organized crime at it's Height.
881843
Whilst both were supported by America, only Saddam threatened the oil supply. I believe that is why Saddam was hated by America. They have supported quite a lot of dictators in the past.
933466
The Bush administration doesn't care if Iraq moves toward a democracy. If we were there to bring democracy to a country ruled by an evil despot, we'd be in every other nation on Earth ruled by an evil despot. We're there for OIL. Pure and simple.\nBecause American motorists want to drive $60,000 gas-guzzling SUVs and because Dick Cheney and his Exxon-Mobil buddies want to get richer and richer and richer as they feed America's addiction to foreign OIL. \nBush doesn't 'hear' anything but his own 'cowboy' ego. Bush is nothing more than a puppet controlled by the nameless, faceless sub-humans who run our government from behind-the-scenes. The wealthy elitists, special interest groups, military-industrial complex, and big corporations have told Bush what to do, what to say, and coached him on how to act. He's a moron.\nWe WILL NOT WITHDRAW TROOPS from Iraq until we've sucked every drop of OIL out of that land. If that's not the case, why is the U.S.A. building the largest embassy in the world on a 104-acre sit in downtown Baghdad overlooking the 'new' Iraqi puppet government just installed by the Bush administration??\nWe're there for the OIL.\nThe Republicans know it. The Democrats know it.\nNothing will change.\nThe Iraqi Civil War will go on, and Cheney will eventually get a rock-solid, iron clad agreement from the new Iraqi government that gives U.S. oil companies exclusive rights to all that easily-accessible OIL.   \nThe blood of about 675,000 people (Iraqis and Americans) is on the hands of greed head politicians, war-profiteering corporate entities, war-mongering members of the giant U.S. military-industrial complex, and motorists who think they have a right to drive Hummers and other outlandish vehicles that waste gas.\nIraq is not moving toward being a democracy.\nIt's moving toward being a puppet regime for the U.S.A. -RKO-
779921
Yes, absolutely. I saw one report that the world didn't blame the Americans for anything done by Bush in his first term because they dildn't know what he was about. But when they reelected him, knowing what he was about, they became complicit in his policies. So yes by the majority voting for Bush in 2004, you could say the American people are partly to blame for the debacle in Iraq.
780264
Saddam was a friend to Reagan and Bush Sr., because during the time of their respective presidencies, Iraq was at war with Iran, and the US government supported Iraq and the Saddam Regime. One theory is that the CIA, and the US government, gave Saddam the OK to invade Kuwait because the Kuwaiti government had plans of screwing with the oil supply. However, Saddam went too far, and so the US military had to reel him in and put a short leash on him.\n\nThe theory is actually rather plausible, considering that Bush Sr is an advisor to the Carlyle Group, in which the Bin Laden family heavily invests; and considering that James Baker, the Secretary of State under Bush Sr., and whose law firm, Baker Botts, represents foreign oil interests and lobbyists. (As a side note, isn't it interesting that James Baker is now heading the so called Iraq Study Group, to develop a new strategy for the war in Iraq? And, isn't it equally interesting the Baker Botts law firm defended the Bin Laden family against the law suit brought on by the families of the 9-11 victims?)
348357
why would they be interested in democratic forces?  They are interested in controlling the oil, and the status quo.
288502
According to Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) they do.  And I quote, "If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this...The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going, and I think they should."  March 3, 2003.  Needless to say, this did NOT sit well with the Jewish community.
300961
NO!!!  It was agreed by the allies to the friendly arab states in the region that allied special forces would not go into Bagdad itself-during Gulf War I.  However, British Special Air Service and US NAVY SEALS troops where in the city as snipers and where ready to take Saddam out-which would have brought about the necessary regime change.  But the troops were told to pull out and to not carry out the assassination otherwise it would effect the diplomatic relationships-which would have also effected the oil supplies.\n\nSo the allies had to go in and do it properly this time instead.
826891
Well the Iraqis were given a "grant" of 80 billion to rebuild the country etc but to this day it has been delivered to them but never recieved if you know what i mean. And not that i agree with Saddam Hussain ethics but they refined and shipped more oil when he was in power than they do now. about ten times as much.
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well, I certainly don,t.   I do believe that oil was one of the primary  reasons,  but perhaps not the most important one.  as early as 1999, when  dumbya was being touted for candidacy,  he told his biographer  that Reagan had advised him that if he ever became president,  to pick a country,   that would be a sure win.  he chose iraq because it was one of his daddy's biggest mistakes.  when hb1 first installed saddam , then gave him billions  of dollars and weapons.  (Where do you think iraq got all those weapons they used in the Iraq-Iran war?)  so,  major reasons were  to get his ratings up,  get the country behind him, get control of the oil,  and fatten lots of pockets  with war contracts.\nof course, most of the biggest and fattest contracts went to  a company called halliburton, formerly chaired by tricky dicky cheney.\none could go on and on, and many books have been written on the subject, and many more wll, in years to come.