There are people on this board RIGHT NOW who think the Iraq War was for oil:
>prior to war, less than 3% of all oil imports came from Iraq
>US imports even less oil from Iraq than before the war
>Mexico provides DOUBLE the amount of oil that Iraq did, yet we don't invade them
>America is the largest oil producing country in the world
Despite these widely available facts, people still believe Jon Stewart's lies. Is anyone here legitimately still this retarded?
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The Iraq War was because of the Arab Spring and the Arab Spring was because of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the OIC is because of islam
>Muh oil imports.
Jesus, you americunts are so fucking dumb.
It was about Petrodollar.
Doesn't it have something to do with a new gold backed currency that would have rivaled the US-Petro dollar?
That was Qaddafi. But Hussein wanted to trade oil in Euros.
Is the Syria battle going on today still a result of US attempts of stopping the Qaddafi thing? The whole middle-east thing is really confusing to follow.
The Arab spring happened over 7 years after we invaded iraq, obviously it wasn't the cause of the invasion
The Syria civil war has been going on longer than the Qaddafi thing happened.
It's just been heating up recently as isis is gaining more regional influence. The rebels wanna overthrow the government to make an Islamic state, Assad wants to stay in power, and the civilians are getting caught in the middle. That's why there are so many refugees. The rest of the world is just watching to see who wins.
>The whole middle-east thing is really confusing to follow
>really confusing to follow
Hmmm (((who))) else is like that when you hear what they have to say?
USA overthrows secular governments creating power vacuum in ME. USA is also ally of Saudi Arabia who is sponsor of moderate jihadism in the region by pure coincidence.
With Russia's help, and soon China's help shouldn't Syria's battle be nearing an end? If the Syrian war can finally end, how realistic is it to rebuild Syria and send the refugees back home.
lmao amerifats lost iraq war so miserably that they have to create ISIS in order to finish job
It was because Saddam was going to return to the gold standard and trade oil for gold, this effected the petrodollar.
Similar to Qaddafi, practically the same actually.
It is one big plot that the Arab nations - knowing the end is nigh on their oil exports have hatched to make the most of their dwindling oil reserves.
Pic related as a source.
Breddy guud book.
They will nevar leave.
>it's another Petro dollar conspiracy thread
Can somebody explain this petrodollar meme?
Yes - google, now fuck off to it shill.
>rebuild Syria and send the refugees back home
A deal was made to only sell oil in USD. Which forced any country wanting to purchase oil to first buy USD to buy it, causing the demand for USD to rise and making the USD worth more.
Iraq war was because Saddam Hussien was about to attack Kuwait and Saudis Arbia aint gonna have it
No but in all honesty fighting an insurgent army is harder than it seems. Even if China and Russia team up and bomb the hell out of the country, they'd kill all the citizens in the process and there would be nothing to rebuild. Assad would remain in power, pissing off other rebel factions, and the civil war continues.
We kinda gotta let em fight it out themselves, because Everytime anyone intervenes it just ends up with a bunch more dead civilians, a bunch more refugees, and a bunch more finger pointing
Thanks leaf
fuck you faggot
It was for Israel + Petrodollar.
you got rich off the misery of ME People and EU money. As soon as the US approved Dictators though how to out-jew you, you got rid of them. First Saddam who was leaning to the EU. Then Qaddafi, who wanted to create an arab league, so they don't have to depend on you.
Just a big thanks for that,
You ruined a whole sub-continent, flooded another with migrants, just so you could have a cheap mobility scooter and your 50 gallons of daily diet coke.
(((Jon Liebowitz))) is the worst. We here on Sup Forums know the true (((reason))) behind the iraq war.
No, fuck you - degenerate!
no shit, the point was to keep the region unstable so that they couldn't tamper with oil prices, not to increase our import levels
Our economy is partly dependent on the price of crude oil, since we have mandates in certain regions that oil can only be purchased with USD
>America largest oil prooducer
>I'm nrw to this geopolitical strategy thing, but I like headlines!
What is a profit margin Alex?
Idk if Sup Forums is still this retarded, but the majority of the country sure is. They unironically believe we went to Iraq for oil. When you ask them, "where is the oil?", they stfu real quick.
>muh petrodollar meme
Where is the petroleum, faggot?
Control over the sale of Oil is basically the same thing, they aren't too far off.
>muh secular gov't meme
Boy, Saddam sure was secular. What with slaughtering every Kurd he could find and starting a war with Shi'ites and what have you. How secular of him.
>I-It's your fault for my government taking in refugees
>f-fuck you
Every time, take some responsibility.
Yuropoors/Ruskies have a propaganda campaign of shaming America over some bizarre petroleum-oil conspiracy. None of it makes any sense. Just let them vent. They need to blame their current cucked immigration policies on somebody. We'll be the punching bag... again.
dumb little shit, the people who started the Iraq war doesn't give a shit about how much America gets out of the war
Youre the cuckholds that let them in, dont try blaming others.
We do not have, nor have we ever had, control over Iraq's oil sales. Wtf are you even talking about?
Seriously, several European countries chose not to take in refugees, or at least not as many. You don't have to take refugees in.
>the point was to keep the region unstable so that they couldn't tamper with oil prices
Explain to me this tampering of oil prices, please. How was it tampered with? Who did the tampering?
The same people that back your presidential candidates back the European ones, like Merkel.
I'd give a Hanz a point on this one, you guys have guns but still fall for the "hes an anti Semite" bullshit that allows the zog to control the west.
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Hmm, I think the biggest conspirators are Muslims, if you look at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and the Muslim Brotherhood, they promoted the Arab Spring leading to the downfall of Gaddafi and the Syrian Civil War, what many don't realize is that Muslims have infiltrated our government and are influencing our policy dealing with the Middle East. It's never as easy as a simple conspiracy, there are a lot of players in the game.
It was KIND OF about oil in the sense that it was to defend the petrodollar. The US currency would crash if a major oil exporter were allowed to sell oil in any other currency. Literally the only thing America does for the world is provide the global currency. If we lose that we fall into useless obscurity.
It ultimately was about oil, though.
Ever since the gold standard was abolished, the value of our currency has been backed by oil. Saddam had planned to ditch the petrodollar system and start selling his oil in exchange for Euros. Gadaffi was killed for similar reasons.
>Literally the only thing America does for the world is provide the global currency.
Kek
Iraq wasn't a major oil producer though. It was a drop in the bucket.
By your logic, we might as well have invaded Venezuela
Oil was shouted loudly and frequently by the Neocons as a presumed benefit to implementing the Yinon Plan, which was the real goal.
>Can somebody explain this petrodollar meme?
How retarded do you have to be to think the petrodollar is a meme?
investopedia.com
>The petrodollar system elevated the U.S. dollar to the world's reserve currency and through this status, the U.S. is able to enjoy persistent trade deficits, and become a global economic hegemony. The petrodollar system also provides the United States’ financial markets with a source of liquidity and foreign capital inflows through petrodollar "recycling."
It was for oil. Top execs lobbied hard for an intervention, which would only benefit themselves. The US government is like a cheap whore that those can have the money can buy.
Oil and 9/11 were covers for it. THe reaso nwe went to war was because a bunch of senators who had stock in military contracting companies wanted to make tons of money, so we went to war for individuals profit for the loss of life.
Again, how do you explain the fact that we import less oil from Iraq now than before the war? And Iraq only accounted for 3% of our imported oil at that time?
I always had the sense that the west did the Iraq war to incubate the violence in a specific area of the world, keep them entertained there and not in the west
Violence=Muslim violence in this case
Saddam slaughtered Kurds who in the Iran/Iraq war sided with Iran and sabotaged Iraq's efforts.
It's brutal to kill them, but they were not innocent.
Maybe because BP, Exxxon, Shell and company sold iraqi oil to the rest of the world? Nobody said the oil grab ever had to benefit U.S citizen, dumbo.
It's not about oil imports, it's about ensuring that oil is always traded under the dollar. How do you not know how America enforces it's global hegemony?
Iraq was planning it forming its own currency, that's why it was overthrown, same with Libya. Other countries that were going to be involved were Syria, Afghanistan, Iran, Sudan. The CIA declared war on all those countries.
Americans cant take responsibility: the thread.
Seriously every single major fuck up from the 70s to this day can be easily traced back to the usa and its cabal of jew overlords. EVERY SINGLE ONE!
Iran doesn't already trade in ruble with Russia?
The American people have no idea what their governments do behind closed doors. Which makes it sad to see the Jihad dudes want to kill the American citizens. It's just as bad as the black people who blame every white person for slavery.
You would expect that /pol shitposters to be a bit more informed.
Oh well.
Besides isnt the petrodolar thingie basicly confirmed? Aka beyond "muh ebin conspiracy" status.
Oil from Saudi Aramco makes up about a third of the US intake, however, and after the first Gulf War they were understandably nervous about Iraq.
The war wasn't fought just because the US wanted oil, but the close alliance with the Saudis was a huge factor, and the only reason that alliance exists is oil. Another factor was the US intelligence apparatus failing to define what "likely to have WMDs" means as a numerical probability, which meant that Bush hugely overestimated the chance that they were going to find completed nuclear weapons, but a third factor was 9/11, which again links to the Saudis and to oil. Iraq had a gigantic military, which was the result of the Iran-Iraq war, which can be traced all the way back to the nationalisation of Iran's oil wells.
To recap, it wasn't a direct pursuit of oil, but it occurred because of the US's regional entanglement within alliances that only exist due to oil.
I know about it but i thought it was not conspiracy lvl knowledge.
It's just a lot more complicated than the conspiracy theorists believes.
OPEC can choose any currency for trading oil in, as long as the currency provides a financial advantage to the trade.
I mean, we wouldn't want to trade oil in Zimbabwe dollars
And thats why they chose the usd. Isnt america literaly fucked if the petrodollar miraculously turns into petro euro? Or other bullshit like this? This makes america willing to fight for the oil fuckers so that their economy qint be assblasted. And america has the strongest milltary. So yeah
The Iraq war was for Israel
Sauce pls
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> We didn't attack Mexico.
Well, mexicans are people.