Malachai

Even Before the War on Iraq, there were already deals being made with major oil corperations in the United States. One such company was Haliburton.

“Halliburton’s stock price responded swiftly, plummeting to $12.62 in October 2002, from a high of $22 the year beforee, and rumors began to swirl that the company would be forced to file for bankruptcy.

But news of a pending war in Iraq meant that Halliburton’s financial troubles would, like Saddam Hussein’s regime, be history. Classified documents from November 2002 show that the Department of Defense recommended that The Army Corps of Engineers award a contract to Brown & Root to extinguish Iraqi oil well fires in addition to ‘assessing the condition of oil-related infrastructure; cleaning up oil spills or other environmental damage at oil facilities; engineering design and repair or reconstruction of damaged infrastructure; assisting in making facilities operational; distribution of petroleum products; and assisting the Iraqis in resuming Iraqi oil company operations.”‘       -By Jason Leopold from

 I am STRONGLY opposed to the war for these reasons: 

http://www.afsc.org/iraq/activism/10-reasons.htm

“Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists”-George W. Bush

According to the present day government, we are presently in Iraq to spread democracy. However, this was not always our reason. Initially, we were there in order to find the WMD’s that Iraq was hiding from us. Even this reasoning is questionable. What right have we to invade a country when they aim to gain WMD’s? America has the most nuclear missles of any country in the world. And yet, when a small country such as Iraq MIGHT have some, we invade.

When it became appearent that there truly were no WMDs, our reason to be in Iraq became to unseat Saddam Huisane from power. Once that had been achieved, we were “bringing democracy” to the Iraqi nation.

The truth is, we do not have a good reason to be in Iraq; at least, not one that we can admit to. The war has been extremely beneficial to America, bringing it its most desired recource: oil. This war has provided oil for the United States and interestingly enough, this benefactor is nothing more than a fortunate offshoot of our true goals. Right now in Iraq, the United States forces are acting as Police. The presence of the United States in Iraq is not helping the situation, and thus I believe that we should try to leave the situation in the best possible condition, and while we need not severe all ties with Iraq, I do not belive that our continued control over Iraq is benefits anyone but ourselves. Because of this we ought to leave.