Is there a confirmed reason why american troops are in the middel east?

Question

It began with many thing saddam hussan, september 11, nuclear threat , and oil? what going on? what are the reasons troops are there? has bush given any sure reason?

Answer 1

The main reason is that Bush is a right wing, fascist wally of the highest order. Thank God he's soon to be gone

Answer 2

So, Lord Barrack Obama of the Order of then Dragon can do what he does best.  And, finish with our ancestoral promise.  

My family vowed to annihilate the Middle East and that one of our relatives will take power and seize control of the United States War Machine.  

The Order of the Dragon will soon be a feared order again.  And, bring order to the world.  And, none of you dummy pilled citizens can do anything about it.  

This is a plan six hundred years in the making.  And, the time to act is now.

Answer 3

Trust me on this one. If there was just more sand under all that sand in the Middle East do you really believe we would have gotten involved in this mess. My friend its all about oil.

Answer 4

I would love to say all of the above, but I think the main reason we are is because of the oil. Oil is in tight supply around the world. The Chinese are desperate for more oil because of their growing economy, and the millions of people there that are there shifting into the middle class. The U.S. troops are wedged between two giant oil producing countries -Saudi Arabia and Iran. Iraq happens to be a very strategic location.

Answer 5

Mikerad is way off beam.  It is correct that WMDs had been used to attack the Kurds in Iraq.  They had also been used against the Marsh Arabs in Iraq and the Iranians.  The US supplied them for these purposes so knew both that Iraq had had them, and also that he'd used them up.  The US has not been shy about committing genocide itself through the years but prefers to get somebody else to do the dirty work - Saddam Hussein was one, Osama bin Laden another.

The real reasons are:

a) ObL and almost all the 9/11 perpetrators were Saudi but ObL's family were, like other Saudi elite, GOP and GWB funders

b) Bush invaded Afghanistan to avoid the Afghans handing over ObL as they had offered.  Unfortunately he was soon trapped in the Afghan/p**i mountains and capture imminent so Bush had to find a distraction fast.

c) Saddam Hussein had been installed and supported in Iraq to suppress the Shia majority in the oil-rich south and prevent the possibility of them allying with Shia and oil-rich Iran.  Such an alliance could embolden and assist the Shia in the oil-rich north of Saudi to throw off the extremely repressive Islamic militant Saudi dictatorship.  Jim K's wedge.

d) Hussein's regime was looking shaky with even family members decamping.  This threatened a power vaccuum or democracy which could allow the conditions for (c).

For these reasons, Bush began the Iraq invasion (not war which requires an opponent that can fight back - the US doesn't do war) but cited 9/11 and al Qaeda involvement (which couldn't be farther from the truth), then WMD threat to the US (presumably they'd deliver by rowboat) and then, ironically, promoting democracy as each was blown out of the water.

The reason WAS oil but not to bring down the price - Bush and his cronies make even bigger profits from high prices - to secure supply, restrict access to competitors, and ensure the exchange was in $US.

Answer 6

I believe we originally went in to take out Saddam Hussein. Whether or not the US ever found WMD's, it is a fact proved by the hundred's of thousands of dead Kurds. (WMD- gas)

Now that he is gone, the US must stay there to stabilize the area. yes, oil is the biggest, most precious commodity there. And if Iran was to take over and control it, the WORLD's supply of oil would be in jeopardy. the US and our allies are there to stabilize.

and the whole Saddam Hussein thing started way back in 1990 when HE invaded Kuwait. since then there were UN sanctions against him that he never abided by... so Bush, with many, many other nations, took him out.

so I hope you start to read history and not just listen to the TV. you'll go wrong with that every-time.

Answer 7

The US started a war of aggression, destabilized the region, and now needs to stay to prevent a civil war and the economic crisis that warring factions of Sunni and Shiites would cause.