The Bush administration and Iraq. (c2003)

Abstract

The Middle East is a vital oil region and remains critical to future energy supplies. Iraq alone possesses 11 % of the world's known oil reserves. Moreover it possesses promising untapped hydrocarbon potential. These fields may harbor the world's largest remaining reservoir of unclaimed petroleum. If sanctions are removed and teclmology brought in, whoever gains access to these fields will be able to exercise enormous influence over the global energy markets. Iraq is an important asset for the United States and its Empire building. The demand for oil continues to rise and production and reserves depleting in the world. The role of the Middle East will become even more imperative and vital to the US and the world as a whole as more countries need oil for survival. The quest to remove Saddam from power is less of a motivation than the desire for oil, regional stability and US World Empire. US invasion has little to do with weapons of mass destruction. It has to do with oil and Empire. The US will take control of Iraq’s huge oil reserves. However it is not only about importing the oil, the Issue is of controlling this oil, transporting it to the markets, undermining OPEC and controlling access to oil by European and Asian countries whose economies are growing more and more on oil for their survival. Oil is the means to an end.