What are they fighting over in iraq again?

Question

I'm confused. Whats the war about over there and in Iran or something?

Answer 1

Read the newspaper or do some research. You are never going to get a legit answer on here. Especially about weapons of "master" destruction. Hehe.

Answer 2

Honey, no one knows! oh they will tell you we are fighting terrorism which makes no sense because the terrorist that attack us on 9/11 is in a different country breathing free fresh air. then their were suppose to be Weapons of Master Destruction but they did not fine any. so no one knows! maybe it over oil!

Answer 3

No matter what the front story is it always leads back to money and power. Keeping nuclear weapons down is a good idea however. Some of these countries seem to be under the delusion that they can fire off these weapons any where they want and it won't come back to haunt them.

Answer 4

Many reasons were given during the build up to the war, and as each of those reasons was shown to be phony, even more popped up to replace them.  First, it was because Saddam Hussein fostered a climate favorable to Al-Quaeda terrorists who allegedly attacked this country on September 11, 2001 (absolutely false, Al-Quaeda has only entered the region after we removed Hussein).  Then it was because he refused to reveal the location of his chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons of mass destruction manufacturing facilities (absolutely false, no wmd facilities were ever found, and American intelligence agents even told President Bush before the war that Hussein had no such capabilities).  Then it was because he was an evil dictator who gassed his own people, the Kurds (true, with the biological weapons that we supplied to him).  We knew, however, that General Schwarzkopf blew up all of Saddam's biological and chemical weapons at the close of Operation Desert Storm, inadvertently poisoning thousands of US service men and women in the process.

Never mentioned in the main stream media, but true nonetheless, was the fact that Saddam was increasing oil production and shipments beyond OPEC guidelines, which threatened the profits of the Saudi and bin  Laden royal families (long time friends and allies of the Bush family) and the profits of large American oil companies, who conspire with the OPEC nations to keep oil supplies low and drive the price up.  To make matters worse, Hussein wanted to break the demands of the US that all oil trades must be made in US dollars and begin to sell oil on the open market for euros.

Then it was to help the Iraqi's build their nation into democracy, which was a 180º turn from George Bush's campaign stance in 2000 when he stated that the USA had no business getting into the job of "nation-building" around the world.  Once we established their constitution for them (which has provisions that the Iraqi Parliament cannot make laws overriding the decrees of any nation who has an occupying military force there, among other limits on their sovereignty), the reasons became to promote democracy in the region and prevent the violence of a bloody insurgency/civil war.  To this end, both British and American special forces (along with private mercenary contractor Blackwater) have been accused of impersonating insurgents and attacking the civilian population in false-flag terrorist actions in order to create the perception that their continued presence there is a necessity.  As a result--under no-bid, cost plus contracts that bilk Americans out of literally billions of dollars--Halliburton and Carlyle Group and their subsidiaries have built massive, permanent military bases in Iraq for the US.  

Those permanent military bases are the smoking gun that reveals yet another reason for the war:  it's all about setting the stage for WW III.  Zbignew Brezhinski wrote in "The Grand Chessboard" that for America to remain a superpower into the 21st century it would have to dominate the near and far east.  He made the case that historically, whoever dominated the area from the Suez Canal east to the Chinese and Russian borders became the dominant nation in the world.  He supported his argument as being still true today by noting the vast oil reserves in the region from Saudi Arabia to Georgia and the other former Soviet satellite republics, as well as access to the large pool of cheap labor in China and other far east countries.  His arguments all were directed toward one point, though:  the strategic value of establishing permanent military bases throughout the area.

If you refer to a map of that section of the world, you can see the "chess board" strategy taking form.  The two countries where we are fighting, Iraq and Afghanistan, lie on either side of the geographically larger Iran.  This is why you can hear all the saber-rattling from both the Democrats and Republicans about dangerous and evil Iran:  the goal of both wars is to take over both regions and be able to attack Iran on both of its large borders.  (This is also good for ensuring the flow of oil via pipelines from the former Soviet republics to the east of Afghanistan.)  

Also, whoever controls Iran controls the Persian Gulf to the south, and the Caspian Sea to the north, which is vital for general trade in the region, but also for supply lines supporting future US troops moving into position for attacking Russia and/or China.  

You might also note, while looking at the map of the region, that Georgia, who recently attacked Russia with billions of dollars of US military aid behind them and US military advisers on hand, is in a key position to support troops invading either Russia or Iran, being bounded by US ally Turkey and the Black Sea on the west, Russia to the north, and within air-strike distance of Iran to the south.