Iraq had a great reservoir for oil even back in 1979 when the peak of oil was hit of 3.5 million barrels a day (Hale). Al Jazeera stated “The US has strategic targets to achieve by dominating Iraq's oil, which are to have a card against the rising powers in Asia, India and China who are competing world's main oil demanders. And the second target is to secure Israel's oil needs according to the Israel-United States Memorandum of Understanding of 1975 (Al Jazeera)." The war wasn’t only a overthrow of Saddam Hussein but also a financial aspect of wealth and dominance. Oil is a great source of wealth and the source of most energy in the US. In order for the US to compete with powers such as Asia, China and India, America felt invading Iraq would be the first target to be …show more content…
In this essay, hatred and selfish desires was expressed thoroughly to represent the ideology behind the war. The war cost of billions of dollars, thousands of civilian and military life, and a drop in economy. Former President Obama refers to this war as a “dumb war” and that was projected all through out but however the main cause of the war was advantage over Iraq’s great abundant supply of oil. The United States was unjust for invading Iraq because the lives of thousands of innocent people were killed, expresses imperialism more than democracy and dominance only with military force. The acts of the invasion was unconstitutional and with a new face in government, the US was able to recover and represent