Oh, no reason.
Posted on 04/12/2006 1:08:31 PM PDT by dmanLA
Why Did America Really Invade Iraq?
The stated reason by the Bush Administration for invading Iraq was that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction and was prepared to use them against Israel, Iraq’s other neighbors, and possibly America.1 There are some that believe that the real reasons why America invaded Iraq are found in events and policy development that happened before the invasion but which were never revealed to the American public. There are two such reasons suggested:
First, to ensure that the dollar remained unchallenged as the world’s reserve currency, so that the U.S. could continue to fund its massive deficits and sustain its economy and its political and military supremacy. What does the dollar have to do with all of this and how does the invasion of Iraq fit into the picture?
It seems that Saddam sealed his fate in September 2000, when he demanded that all Iraqi oil sold under the U.N. Oil for Food Program must be paid for in euros rather than dollars. Saddam’s actions were a direct threat to the supremacy of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency and the ability of the U.S. to continue to fund its massive deficits. This is born out by the fact that two months after the U.S. invaded Iraq, the Oil for Food program was terminated and all of the Iraqi euro accounts were switched back to dollars. No longer did the world have the option of buying oil from Iraq and paying for it in euros.
Forcing the Iraqi accounts to convert from euros to dollars cost the Iraqis a great deal of money because the dollar had fallen in value relative to the Euro by some 13%! Not surprisingly, ...
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We invaded so we could get cheap oil.
That was one of the stated reasons.
The first time I heard this theory was while sitting across the table with the leadership from the local Veterans for Peace.
I read that sometime ago. I'm one to believe there was several reasons,...some known and others not.
Where is it?
Oh, no reason.
Actually, the Bilderburgers leaned on the Tri-Lateral commision to force the Greys into rejecting the Reptillian plan to devalue the price of Gold, so that Elvis and JFK wouldn't find the Secret Nazi Base hidden at the North Pole, where Nicoli Tesla's building the Doomsday device. And stuff.
Gee, I guess your theory didn't work!!!
Sounds like a good enough reason to me.
The only reason I can muster up for reading past the first sentence is to look for more half-truths and inaccuracies.
Sorry folks, this is pathetic. I was in the middle east at the time, and well before, and Iraq's oil was a non-issue. The real reasons for invading Iraq were just as the President said. This story is a very weak, economically unsound, conspiracy theory with no real supporting evidence, or even logic to it. Sorry, this just doesn't pass even the weakest smell test.
That's about what I said to the leadership of Veterans for Peace. I think I may have used the words tin foil hat.
Wow...article is such a concentration of nutball idiocy that I fear it may form a black hole of stupidity, from which no actual knowledge can escape.
well that isn't working huh...
Yeah, we invaded Iraq for oil.
That's why oil prices are so low.
Ask Ted Kennedy - he'll tell you - if he's sober at the moments.
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