Bush's administration lauched this war for two altrustic reasons: Iraq has extremely vialated the human rights, and Iraq threatened the international security with weapons of mass destruction. However, the facts in post-war Iraq tell us that either is there liberation for Iraqi people, nor have the weapons of mass destruction ever been found. However the key issue is the oil. ... (nightmare) The Iraqis' misery is getting worse because the country's agriculture is on the blinks of collapse: already 60% of Iraqi's 24.5 million people are dependent upon UN's oil-f...

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Iraq was allowed to sell $2bn of oil every six months to buy food and medicine. ... Aid agencies argued Iraq should be allowed to sell more oil in order to be able to buy more humanitarian supplies. The UN Secretary Kofi Annan supported the call and Iraq was given permission to sell $5.2bn of oil every six months. Officials, opposed the Oil-For-Food Programme and claimed that it was an obstacle for international oil business. ... On the one side there were the UK and the US who firmly insisted that there should be an effective weapons inspection process. ...

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Oil. Iraq is a member of the oil cartel OPEC, and has the second largest oil reserves in the world, second only to Saudi Arabia. The world's complete dependence on oil partially explains why the West was so worried at the prospect of Saddam Hussein having the weapons of mass destruction. ... Oil prices would consequentially rise uncontrollably, and the world would grind to a literal halt, sending many economies straight into a recession. As a result the West, with countries such as Britain and the USA so dependent on oil, must ensure that Iraq doesn't harness the potential to cau...

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To stress that Iraq threatened the peace and prosperity of the US, he claimed that Saddam Hussein harbored Weapons of Mass Destruction and that America had to act accordingly. ... Terry Anderson states in his book: "One reality in Iraq that everyone can agree on was that the nation had enormous proven oil reserves. Before the war, the United States bought nearly one quarter of its imported oil from the Persian Gulf, including about $10 billion annually from Saddam. ... Negligent of the clear facts, the Bush Administration refused to acknowledge that oil played as a factor in the Iraqi military...

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Using the new technology of the steam engine in the early 19th century, and the recent use of the internal combustion engine, society has found itself able to exploit the energy locked in such fossil fuels as coal, oil and gas. ... Point sources which include chemical plants, steel mill, oil refineries, power plants, and hazardous waste incinerators literally emit tons of pollutants and toxins into the atmosphere. ... The government squanders billions of dollars in the research and development of sophisticated weaponry and in doing so puts millions of individuals at risk of becoming infected ...

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But with the rise of the oil monarchies in the Middle East, the balance of power shifted, and vast amounts of money has been put into the hands of nations that less than a hundred years ago were still locked in tribal societies. ... Iraq has also persistently pursued the development of weapons of mass destruction, by spending large portions of its oil revenues to import technologies that facilitate the development of these weapons. ... In 1998 Clinton said, " will be more lethal if we allow them to build arsenals of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. .....

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The main and most famous of these planted ideas was that Iraq possessed both chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction making it necessary to disarm the country in order to maintain the world peace. However, in more than 700 inspections conducted by the UN in the country none of these 'powerful' weapons were found. ... Apparently, the only beneficiaries of the war were the world's major oil companies, which acquired the right to exploit Iraqi oil for many decades, and the U.S., which further ensured its control of one of the largest oil reserves in the world, besides...

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Subsequently a decision was made to go after Iraq as one country that could use its vast oil wealth to finance terrorist activities. ... Bush also claimed that Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), a clear violation of UN Security Council resolution 1441. Bush was threatening to impose a war on Hussein unless he surrendered these weapons. ... Many people suspected that Iraq's oil was one of the main motives of going to war and did not think it was worth the consequences. ... As of yet there have been no Weapons of Mass Destruction uncovered, confirming that there...

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America alleged that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which could be used against American interests and the interests of its allies, and thus declared war in early 2003. ... Experts also believe that removing Iraq from the rogue state list and facilitating its full participation in the international energy market would lower oil prices and as a result positively affect the global economy and certainly the US economy (LaFranchi). However, "Events such as casualty-heavy urban fighting, a failure to take out Hussein, or a desperate Hussein successfully sending missiles or biolo...

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America alleged that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which could be used against American interests and the interests of its allies, and thus declared war in early 2003. ... Experts also believe that removing Iraq from the rogue state list and facilitating its full participation in the international energy market would lower oil prices and as a result positively affect the global economy and certainly the US economy (LaFranchi). However, "Events such as casualty-heavy urban fighting, a failure to take out Hussein, or a desperate Hussein successfully sending missiles or biolo...

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Chan and Safran state that the Bush administration invaded Iraq because there was skepticism of whether the government of Baghdad had weapons and supported Al Qaeda's terrorist network (137). ... Mousseau explains that thousands died in the Iraq and Iran war against Iran for territory and oil (188). ...

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