The United States Invaded Iraq for Their Oil
Few media platforms’ reflections on the Iraq and United States conflict correctly sightsee the extent that the Anglo-American invasion led to the opening up of the Persian Gulf energy resources to the world economy.
The American invasion story has been one of inadequacy and disappointment, if misguided and severely oversaw undertaking to liberate Iraqis from oppression (Gunes, 2019). Undoubtedly, the director of the war was packed with ineptitude at a gigantic scale – however, this doesn’t eradicate the genuine duplicity of the cold, key rationale that propelled the war’s US and English organizers in any case.
For around 30 years, it happens for the first time. Western oil organizations are investigating for and producing oil in Iraq from a portion of the world’s most significant oil fields and procuring tremendous benefit (Heller, 2018). And keeping in mind that the United States has likewise kept up a genuinely predictable degree of Iraq oil imports since the attack, the advantages are not finding their way through Iraq’s economy or society.
After leaving office, Obama and Bush organization authorities have even worked for oil organizations as counselors on their Iraq attempts (Tejedor-Estupiñan, 2018).. For instance, previous U.S. Envoy to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad’s organization, CMX-Griffin, provides worldwide oil organizations and multinationals with unmatched access, understanding, and information on Iraq (Heller, 2018). The new agreements come up short on the security another legal structure would grant, and Iraq legislators have contended that they negated existing law, which requires government control, activity, and responsibility for the oil segment.
The contracts achieve the primary goal of the Cheney energy task force, which was to privatize the Iraq oil sector leading to more foreign companies to invest in the oil industry. The contracts also lead to long term contracts with high ownership stakes (Heller, 2018). The agreements also eliminate the requirements that Iraq’s oil remains in Iraq and companies that have invested in the oil economy in Iraq, invest in the local economy, hiring more of the local laborers.
Production of oil in Iraq has risen by 40% in the last five years, leading to the production of 3 million barrels of oil in a day (Gunes, 2019). Out of the oil produced in Iraq, 80% is being exported outside the country, with Iraq still struggling to meet its energy needs. 25% of the people in Iraq still live in poverty, with electricity and water being a luxury. Iraq remains poor irrespective of the rise in GDP comparing to the surrounding oil-producing countries.
In conclusion, a majority of Iraqis want oil operations to remain in Iraqis hands. The massive foreign military has been used to grant the foreign oil companies access they have. The United States caused war with Iraq, mainly with interest in controlling oil production. The war has led to the loss of many lives, separation of families, and disunity in Iraq. Irrespective of Iraq is one of the leading countries in oil production; most of the citizens are languishing in poverty. Disparate interests are combined with oil; however, there are not many political pioneers who can verbalize a binding together story. This is then played inside a broken political framework abandoned by a rushed and absurd occupation, further convoluted by the later rise of ISIS. The intrusion of Iraq in 2003 might not have been about oil; however, a settlement on oil is required if the post-attack struggle is to be settled.