Could It Be For The Money?

The reason that we are in Iraq according to the government is the hazardous dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and WMD's also known as weapons of mass destruction. We invaded Iraq because there WERE weapons of mass destruction. The government knew Exactly where they were and they would dispose of the hazardous weapons immediately. But why did the United Nations forces have such a difficult time finding these WMD's. wouldnt the US government have a responibility of telling the peacekeepers where these were since they knew EXACTLY where they were. Considering these weapons could have wiped out most of the western hemisphere I feel so much safer that the US government did NOT tell the UN where these WMD's were. In addition to the two potential answers to this question we entered Iraq because they HAD something to do with the 9/11 attacks. Of course I am being sarcastic with all of the above with the exception of Saddam Hussein being a brutal dictator there were not weapons of mass destruction and there was no correlation with 9/11, al-quaeda and Iraq.

Now to get to the non-sarcastic points of my answer, Dick Cheney as I recall is CEO of Halliburton a Fortune 500 company in the energy field. Halliburton happens to have a 2.5 billion “Restore Iraqi Oil” contract. This was supposed to reconstruct the entire country and allow Iraq to export significantly more oil from its northern oil fields. They also failed when working on a pipeline that crosses the Tigris River in Iraq. To Halliburton’s surprise you cannot dig a tunnel through a geological fault zone. Halliburton invested 75.7 million dollars in this project for drill bits crew fee costing 100,000 dollars a day for broken machinery. After Halliburton spent these funds the US invested 66 million to the same cause.

Back to Dick Cheney. In 2000 he retired from Halliburton with a 34 million dollar severance package. Shortly after Cheney took office the war in Iraq started. Could this be a coincidence that the war is in a country that has massive amounts of oil production and exportation capabilities? Could it be a coincidence that in an address by Osama Bin-Laden he states, “this is a war that is benefiting major companies with billions of dollars.”? And could it be a coincidence that Halliburton is the only company mentioned in this address from an April 2004 videotape.

I feel that we entered Iraq because of oil. Could we have tapped into a billion dollar industry by killing? Some may disagree. But why haven’t we left if mission was already accomplished? Why are we still in the land that has so much potential for oil reform? Oil was the number one priority; second to this is the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and the non-existent WMD’s. I feel that these were just an excuse to get into Iraq. Unfortunately we are in the war and we entered the war without an exit strategy. As far as I know we do not have an exit strategy and that will be left up to the incoming president to worry about.