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 Abstract
Iraq has at least 115 billion barrels of
known oil reserves - 10 per cent of the
world total. Oil accounts for more than
70 per cent of Iraq’s GDP and 95 per
cent of government revenue. The motive
for the Bush administration in going to
war was oil.
US occupation in Iraq has led to a civil
war in Iraq. The Iraqi government is too
week to control militia and extremists
who have been killing people everyday.
The nature of the war has changed as two
religious groups Shiite and Sunnis have
deep differences in US occupation. Iraq
has become a perfect place for Al Qaeda
and its allies to launch offensive
operations against US troops as well as
Shiite’s. The longer the US troop’s
remains in Iraq, heavier will be the
consequences in terms of both human
loses and economy. More than 2,500
American troops have died and close to
20,000 have been wounded since Operation
Iraqi Freedom began and this figure will
continue to grow. The U.S. death toll
for May has risen to 112, making it the
deadliest month so far this year,
billions of dollars have been invested,
and the relation with Arab world has
been jeopardized. If the war continues
to grow, then US will face heavier
economic consequences, as well as
oppositions in the country and low army
moral. For this, Iraq issue must be
solved by involving Middle East
countries such as Turkey, Iran, Syria
and the Gulf States and the focus should
be on the Iraqi people, their norms, and
beliefs.
Bush Administration, defend the
accusation that occupation of Iraq to
gain control over that Iraq huge oil
reserves by saying it is “nonsense” and
“a myth.” created against, The US
interests. But, in February, 2007, the
proposed draft of a new law to structure
Iraq’s oil industry was leaked, and it
is being proved by the people of Iraq,
parliament, and other nations that so
called “Libration of Iraq” was not the
case. The US draft bill has several key
features that indicate that invasion of
Iraq was Iraqi oil. As the draft
presented by the George W Bush it
indicates:
1. Allow two-thirds of Iraq’s oil fields
to be developed by private oil
corporations. In contrast, the oil
industry has been nationalized in every
other major Middle Eastern producer for
over 30 years.
2. Place governing decisions over oil in
a new body known as the Iraqi Federal
Oil and Gas Council, which may include
foreign oil companies;
3. Open the door for foreign oil
companies to lock up decades-long deals
now, when the Iraqi government is at its
weakest.
Basically, this draft will secure the
interests of big giants such as
ExxonMobil, Chevon, British Petroleum,
and the other major’s oil companies of
US, the proposed of bill would be
looting Iraqi people of their most basic
source of wealth. It is estimated that
Iraq has 115 billion barrels of proven
reserves ($7 trillion worth at $64 per
barrel) and another 215 billion possible
or likely ($14 trillion), there’s will
be a million dollars of oil for every
Iraqi citizen. According to a recent
statement by the combined leadership of
Iraqi Unions:
.Iraqi public opinion strongly opposes
the handing of authority and control
over the oil to foreign companies, that
aim to make big profits at the expense
of the people. They aim to rob Iraq’s
national wealth by virtue of unfair,
long term oil contracts that undermine
the sovereignty of the State and the
dignity of the Iraqi people.
The US Pulling out of Iraq has three
major consequences that it can avoid if
it pulls out of Iraq economically,
politically, and strategically. In the
article, “Should the United States pull
troops out of Iraq and surrounding
countries?” http://www.helium.com/tm/214382/believe-united-states-should
Bernadette Brandle says, “My reasoning
is what more are they supposed to be
accomplishing that they haven’t already
done?” In this article the writer
believes President Bush already knew
that Iraq did not have WMD, but he sent
the troops anyway. President Bush asked
troops to capture and they did.
Infrastructure of Iraq is also on a
rebuilding process. President Bush asked
US troops to train Iraqi police and
member of the new Iraqi Army this too
they did. Whatever, Mr. President has
asked the troops to do they have done
it. But, why there is a delay? The
writer believes that the US troops have
done everything that was asked of them
and now there is no reason to stay
there, so troops deserves to come home.
International Herald Tribute on March
16th 2007 publishes the opinion of the
French Prime Minister http://www.ith.com/articles/ap/2007/03/17america.NA-GEN-US-France-Prime-Minister.php
Dominique de Villepin, in this newspaper
article; the French Prime Minister
argues that US should pull out of Iraq
as soon as possible. He believes that
the crisis should be resolved by the
Middle East. This point is best summed
up when he says,” States in the region,
from Turkey to Iran, from Syria to the
Gulf States, must be mobilized in
support of this process to ensure Iraq’s
territorial integrity,”.
Columbia University’s Jeffrey Sachs has
written an editorial for the Lebanese
Paper, L’Orient Le-Jour, calling for the
immediate pullout of US troops from
Iraq. In this website called http://www.nuralcubicle.blogspot.com/2005/07/us-should-pull-out-of-iraq-now.html
Jeffrey writes that oil is the major
reasons of US occupation in Iraq. And at
the same time US wants to establish
military bases in the Middle East and
take control of the region. And this
effort is costlier as the writer says,
“The United States is going to lay out
more then $500 billion, or 5% of its
GNP, on military spending this year,
half of the aggregate total in the
world. In other words, the United States
spends as much
 per year on weaponry as
the rest of the world combined”.
Currently, the Defense Department says
it is spending about $4.5 billion a
month on the conflict in Iraq, or about
$100,000 per minute. It is expected that
by the end of the 2010 US expenditure in
Iraq war would exceed 600 billion
dollars. The major factors expenses
factors are Rebuilding post war
military, budgetary cost of the war,
economic cost of the war, Military
Fatalities, Serious Casualties and
Reserves Wage Differential, and many
unpredictable factors. In spite of, US
investing on infrastructures such as
schools, roads, electricity,
communication facilities, the Iraqi
resistance has grown larger, stronger
and more popular in the last two years,
in response to the U.S. invasion and
occupation. In November 2003 the
Pentagon estimated that there were about
5,000 Iraqi resistance fighters. By
December 2004 the Iraqi “interim
government” estimated that the number
had grown to approximately 40,000 active
military forces and 200,000 supporters
in the resistance. By the beginning of
2007 this figure has grown into million.
The continuing presence of the U.S.
troops has strengthened, not weakened,
the resistance as in everyday we can see
and hear news of road-side bomb,
kidnappings suicides attacks against US
troops and the institution associated
with U.S. occupation forces. Such as
Iraqi police officers, coalition forces,
contractors, government officials, and
civilian employees.
The US policy with Iraq before the
September 11 was touch and go policy.
But, Aftermath of the September 11,
President George W Bush declared Iraq,
North Korea, and Iran posses a great
threat to the United States, and said
these nations are “Access of an evil” he
declared war against terror. US led
campaign “war against terror” made its
initial success in Afghanistan.
Attacking, Iraq in an assumption of
so-called “Weapons of mass destruction”
was a blunder. As a result, more then
3,456 US troops have been killed;
thousands of them have been seriously
wounded or lost their organs. Everyday,
hundreds of people are killed by the
extremists, insurgents, and the
terrorists. It doesn’t surprise us even
if hundred of people are dead in Iraq.
Neither Iraqi government nor, US has any
control to stop these extremists from
bombing or killing people. Due to the
civil war in Iraq, Education, human
rights, and health-care have been badly
affected. Adil Shamoo, who is also a
professor at the University of Maryland
at School of Medicine in his article,
“The Destruction of Iraqi Healthcare
Infrastructure” published on June 1 2007
writes, After the invasion in Iraq by
the US ten’s of thousand’s of doctors
have fled the country and moved to else
where. Even though, they are needed in
the country. Two thousand doctors have
been killed. And some of the hospitals
lack the basic elements of care:
hygiene, clean water, antibiotics,
anesthetics and other basic drugs.
Oxygen, gauze, rubber gloves, and
diagnostic instruments such as X-rays
are absent or rarely evident. He further
says, after the two wars, one in the
1990’s and the other in 2003 with the
United States, the healthcare of Iraq
has been destroyed. Before the invasion
Iraq’s health-care system was considered
as one of the best in the Middle East.
Iraq had well-trained physicians and
modern facilities. Today, the healthcare
system barely exists at all, with few
healthcare workers and hospitals that
are battlegrounds.
President George. W. Bush and his
administration might say attacking Iraq
was inevitable because Saddam possessed
a great threat of WMD. Attacking Iraq
was well planned; the only factor it was
lacking was cultural norms, and beliefs
of the Iraqi people. People of the Iraq
wanted Saddam to be overthrown. That
does not mean they wanted the United
States to occupy their country.
Phyllis Bennis and Erik Leaver of
Institute for policy studies, in their
article “Ending the US war in Iraq”
suggests how US can end the Iraq war and
the major action in this regard are
Ceasing all offensive actions and depart
from population centers, Close the 14 or
more permanent and/or long-term military
bases the U.S. has established in Iraq,
Insist that the U.S.-dependent “interim
government” in Iraq immediately postpone
the scheduled January 30th national
elections. Announce that the U.S.
embassy in Baghdad will be reduced to
“normal” size and authority, Declare
that it has no intention of maintaining
control, officially or through
surrogates, over Iraq ’s oil, oil fields
or oil production capacity, Cut off U.S.
spending for the Iraq War, Halt the
rampant war profiteering that has caused
widespread waste, fraud, and abuse.
Cancel or revoke all U.S.-issued
contracts to U.S. and other foreign
corporations working in Iraq, Ensure
that all Iraqi funds - including oil
revenues and money from previously
frozen accounts - are removed from U.S.
government control and returned to Iraqi
control, Return any funds remaining in
the U.S.-controlled Development Fund for
Iraq to Iraq, Create a U.S.-financed
multi-billion dollar fund for
reparations and reconstruction in Iraq,
structural adjustment programs, Minimize
Chances of Civil War.
The action has started to take place as
the United States broke diplomatic
relations with Tehran and offered a talk
which took place in the Green Zone
offices, of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki. It was the first formal and
scheduled meeting between Iranian and
American government officials after the
1979. U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker says,
"We don't have a formal invitation to
respond to just yet, so it doesn't make
sense to respond to what we don't
have,”. The statement of Ryan Crocker,
"the level of policy and principle, the
Iranian position as articulated by the
Iranian ambassador was very close to our
own” was a positive step towards
involving Iran and other Gulf States to
solve the Iraq issue by politically
rather then force..
Aftermath of the Iraq war, situation of
Iraq has badly affected millions of
people have died, and more then 400
billion dollars have been spent. The
companies like Exxon, BP, Chevon, and
the other major’s oil companies of US
should stop playing the politics with
the government such as Invading Iraq,
for their profits. Iraq issue should be
solved by involving Middle East
countries through dialogues. Everyone
should understand that Killing is not an
option. !!. If we exemplify by what
happens if we invade, occupy, and
control the formation of the country:
how badly the future of children’s,
workers, citizens, the economy,
religion, and the nation will damage. To
escape such a grave situation war must
come to and end.
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