Posted by: Wouter, 2009-05-20 06:49

Claim
Note: If you want to develop this Statement into an Argumentation, you have to fill in the Title box of this Statement.
A reason for the war on Iraq is to prevent oil from this region to enter the world market.
War has never contributed to an increase of oil production in a country. It is more often so that countries or regions which suffer from war produce less as a whole. Clearly, attacks on pipelines, storage facilities etc. occur more often in war prone areas than in stable regions like Europe for example. So why attack Iraq? Clearly not to increase oil production in this region!
A view findings:
1. the US is not dependent on oil imports from the Middle East, only a small percentage is actually imported from this region. Most of Middle East oil is exported to Europe and Asia.
2. A high price of oil is not that bad for the US, being one of the biggest producers themselves.
3. a high oil price increases the need for dollars worldwide, therefore supports the value and hence enables the US to lent more, supporting their traditional consuming habits.
4. It has been a tradition of the major oil companies, backed by the oil consuming counties, to use Iraqi oil as swing capacity and was mostly withheld from the world market. First through the Turkish Petroleum Company (1912), than through the Iraqi Petroleum Company (1928), which were both consortia of the major oil companies. The Iraqi Petroleum companies played a large role in the creation of the cartel of the seven sisters.



Go to existing Argumention for this Claim


Comments


No comments yet.

Please login to post your comment.












All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.
Stories, Arguments and Comments are owned by the Poster.
The Rest copyright © 2007 Argumentations.com. All rights reserved. Argumentations.com provides material for research or educational purposes only. We do not warrant the correctness of its contents. The risk from using it lies entirely with the user. While using this site, you agree to have read and accepted our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Argumentations.com is far from perfect so if you have any critiques, questions, comments or problems about this site please tell us. Click here to send your feedback. And if you like Argumentations.com please link to this site. It will really help a lot.
   

Tags

Iraq,   Middle East,   Oil,   USA,   War,  

Related stories

No results

Related arguments

No results

View other suggested statements

Date 
2004-08-06 The Iraq war is but the first in a major battle over global energy resources...
1984 / 1987 a "Tanker War" took place between Iran and Iraq, where each nation fired on each other'...
2007-07-05 "Energy security is extremely important to all nations throughout the world, and of course, ...
2007-07 "The Iraqi oil law could benefit foreign oil companies at the expense of the Iraqi people, d...
2007-01-11 The consequences of failure are clear: Radical Islamic extremists would grow — would — would grow...
2007-08-26 "Without lifting a finger, the Iranians became the most dominant regional power."
-- D...
2007-08-26 "All of the region's crises are now interconnected, thanks to the war in Iraq. [ ... ] Nothi...
2007-08-26 "All regimes in the Middle East recognize that America has lost the war in Iraq. [ ... ] The...
2002-08 George Bush signed a top-secret National Security Presidential Directive, titled "Iraq: Goal...
2007-09-16 "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows. The I...
2002-12 "Iraq presents far from ideal conditions for achieving strategic goals. Saddam Hussein is th...
2003-02-24 In the United States, President Bush was briefed on the status of the Iraqi oil industry and the ...
2005-04 Donald Rumsfeld was on an official visits to Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaij...
1990-01 In the USA, Judge William Webster, Director of the CIA, testified before the Senate Armed Service...
An attack on Iran would lead to a long war in the Middle East...
An attack on Iran would alienate the Islamic world...
An attack on Iran would increase terrorism globally...
1957-01-05 President Eisenhower outlined what became known as the Eisenhower Doctrine
1992 In the USA, the Draft Defense Planning Guidance is published
2001-02-03 A top secret memo from a "high level National Security Council official"
Saddam Hussein has tried to dominate the Middle East...
2004-08-06 According to the estimates of Colin Campbell and K. Aleklett of Uppsala University, five countrie...
2006-11-03 As many as 9,000 Iraqis were killed in violence from July through September, according to a repor...
2006-11-03 More than 100 U.S. military personnel were killed in October, making the month one of the deadlie...
2006-09-01 Without a central Iraqi government willing to act in its own self-defense, this war will be unwin...
2006-09-01 If the Iraq war is lost it is unconscionable to make one more American soldier die for a cause th...
2004-08-06 The US occupation of Iraq is about control of global oil resources...
2006 / 2006-12-31 China fears that the United States, can act as a "check" against Chinese oil imports from the Mid...
1998-10-01 Saddam Hussein fails to comply with United Nations weapons inspectors, resulting in a four-day bo...
2003-03-19 The United States and other Coalition forces start bombing campaign in an effort to remove Saddam...
2003-04-09 Baghdad falls to U.S.-led forces; Saddam Hussein's whereabouts unknown...
2003-07-22 Saddam Hussein's sons and henchmen, Uday and Qusay, are killed in a firefight with U.S. troops...
2003-12-14 Saddam Hussein is captured by U.S. forces
...
2003-03-19 A US-led coalition invades Iraq with the intent of overthrowing Saddam Hussein’s regime....
The War in Iraq is more likely to have been initiated by the U.S. military establishment's need f...
2003-04 U.S. forces take control of Haditha dam to prevent potential sabotage...
2005-05 U.S. forces launch an attack on insurgents controlling Haditha...
2005-08-01 Six U.S. Marine snipers killed in Haditha. ...
2005-08-03 Roadside bomb in Haditha U.S. kills 16 Marines and their interpreter.
...
2005-09-13 U.S. forces strike Haditha with air and ground attacks...
2005-09-20 Military says roadside bomb killed a Marine and 15 civilians. U.S. Marine spokesman Capt. Jeffrey...
2006-01 Journalism student Taher Thabet, via an Iraqi human rights group, passes video of bodies to Time ...
2006-02-14 Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, No.2 U.S. commander in Iraq, starts preliminary investigation of what h...
2006-03-09 March 9: Chiarelli says about a dozen Marines were under investigation for possible war crimes in...
2006-03-27 Time magazine publishes survivors' allegations that Marines ran amok in Haditha after Terrazas' d...
2006-04-07 Three Marine officers, 3rd Battalion commander Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani, Kilo Company commander ...
2006-05-26 U.S. defense official says Marines involved with the Haditha incident face possible murder charge...
2007-03-08 The new U.S. commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, said that military force would not end vi...
2004-03-31 Blackwater security convoy was ambushed by gunmen in Fallujah, Iraq. The four men were dragged f...
2005-03-05 Freed Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena steps down at Ciampino military airport...
2007-04-26 George J. Tenet, the former director of central intelligence, has lashed out against Vice Preside...
2007-04 Stephen J. Hadley is interviewing candidates, including military generals, for a new high-profile...
2001-12-26 Two Brookings Institution analysts, Philip H. Gordon and Michael E. O'Hanlon, concluded on starti...
2003-02 France, Germany and Belgium temporarily block US move to offer military support to Turkey in even...
2002-12-12 American intelligence agencies say Iraq's 12,000-page weapons declaration to the United Nations d...
2003-07-06 "Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war, I have ...
2009-02-20 On February 20, the Russian Federation Security Council and the State Council will approve a new ...
2006-06-21 We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons: Rick Santorum
2008-07-15 “I am running for President of the United States to lead this country in a new direction… Instead...
2008-07 "I don't have troops I can reach for, brigades I can reach, to send into Afghanistan until I...
2003-06-12 The Washington Post quotes a White House spokesman acknowledging documents "detailing a tran...
1935 "I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I help...
1902 Alfred Thayer Mahan, a U.S. naval captain and author of "The Influence of Sea Power Upon His...
Saddam Hussein has ordered chemical attacks on Iran...
Saddam Hussein has ordered chemical attacks on more than forty villages in his own country...
Iraq possesses ballistic missiles with a likely range of hundreds of miles -- far enough to strik...
Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse ch...
Iraq is ( /could be) exploring ways of using UAVS for missions targeting the United States....
Sophisticated delivery systems aren't required for a chemical or biological attack
Saddam Hussein is a murderous tyrant...
2002 Bush spent public dollars on a secret propaganda program ...
2003-01-28 Saddam Hussein has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes: Bush
2002-07 In the USA, Donald Rumsfeld had a one-word answer for reporters who asked whether Iraq had relati...
2008-06-05 In the USA, a long delayed five year U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence study and 170-p...
2007-11-07 The congressional elections of Nov. 7, 2007 show that the USA people want impeachment
2005 In the USA, the RAND Corporation submitted a report to the Army, called “Rebuilding Iraq,” that i...
2004 “What has been impressive to me so far is that Iraqis—whether Kurds or Shia or Sunni or the many ...
The US Treasury is opposed to an attack on Iran
1990-10-10 In the USA, the Congressional Human Rights Caucus held a hearing on Capitol Hill at which H&K...
1990 In the USA, the Pentagon flooded the major media outlets with reports of a top-secret satellite i...
2003-02 An oil industry trade journal reported the Bush administration was ready to finance the pipeline ...
2003-02-05 Saddam Hussein was working to produce nuclear weapons: Powell
Israel cannot carry out an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities on its own
2006-04-23 CBS's "60 Minutes" interviewed Tyler Drumheller, the former CIA chief of clandestine op...
2005 In the USA, the Silberman-Robb commission investigating intelligence in the Iraq war failed to in...
2004-02-05 George Tenet delivered a speech at Georgetown University that alluded to Sabri and defended his p...
2006-09-08 in the USA, three Republican senators on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence -- Orrin Hat...
2006-07 In the USA, George Tenet, who had testified before the committee in July 2006 that Drumheller had...
2003-06-05 Dennis Kucinich demands that the Bush administration disclose its evidence for claiming that Iraq...
USA Administration officials have denied slanting intelligence to justify the war with Iraq...
2003-06-04 "I personally never asked anybody in the intelligence community to change a single thing tha...
2003-06-06 "The question is that we went into this war based upon primarily ties with al Qaeda on the p...
Torture by USA-govt has been practiced and exposed as routine at Guantanamo, at Abu Ghraib Prison...
There is an urgent need to remove George Bush and Dick Cheney from office in order to end the bru...
2008-06-18 In the USA, Physicians for Human Rights released a report that found that U.S. personnel tortured...
Bush did not have a motive to lie about the need to go to war with Iraq...
Bush would certainly fear to be found out, if he knew there were no WMDs to be found in Iraq?...
Position: President Bush is NOT guilty of dragging the nation to war with Iraq through lies and d...
The USA is the world's only superpower...
The USA increasingly has to import its oil...
The US has a strong motivation to control the price of the oil...
The US has a strong motivation to control those who produce and export oil...
The US has a strong motivation to control those who transport oil to the nearest deep-water port...
The US wants unrestricted access to as many different sources of oil as possible...
The more the oil-exporting countries compete among themselves, the less they are likely to unite ...
2007-11 "The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help re...
President Bush tried to prevent Congress and the citizens of the United States from discovering t...
President Bush (& co.) suppressed material information regarding the alleged threat from Iraq...
President Bush (& co.) selectively declassified information for the improper purposes of reta...
The Caspian oilfields are key to the USA's strategy of breaking the dominance [in oil production]...
Impeaching Bush is detrimental to the war in Iraq...
The war in Iraq is becoming more successful...
In recent weeks, even formerly cautious voices in the Pentagon have started to talk about an impe...
President George Bush did not know there were no WMDs to be found in Iraq...
2008-07-08 The US Navy’s Fifth Fleet announced American, British and Bahraini vessels were to launch a new e...
2008-08 In September 2003, the White House ordered then-Director George Tenet to fabricate a letter descr...
2008-08 The United States went to war knowing that Iraq had no WMD.
-- According to Ron Suskind, in his ...
2005 The Chinese state oil firm CNOOC attempted to buy U.S.–based Unocal.
It withdrew the offer in t...
2008-08-27 Success in Iraq has allowed us to continue the President's policy of return-on-success. We've red...
USA will attack Iran if a high-casualty attack on US forces in neighbouring Iraq were traced dir...
2001 Killing innocent people is not a ‘war on terrorism’; it is terrorism.
-- Noam Chomsky, September...
2003-01-18 ImpeachBush.org was formed by former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark from the stage of a rally o...
2008-07 "Another war in the Middle East is the last thing we need, and, in fact, I believe it would ...
2008-09-15 "I am in favor of negotiating with Iran": Henry Kissinger
2007 US Department of State have removed Iraq and Libya have been removed from the list of state spons...
2008 Between the summer of 2000 and the summer of 2008 (gasoline prices tend to peak in the summer), o...
USA proposed the construction of oil and gas pipelines linking Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to Eur...
2008-10-26 U.S. forces ferried by 4 helicopter crossed five miles into Syria from Iraq and launched a comman...
2008-05-15 The entire idea of a "war on terror" is a misleading concept that has got this country ...
2008-09-16 Iran’s friends in the region will never allow Iran to be attacked and will make every effort to m...
2007-10-14 “I’ve fought successfully in the Senate to increase our investment in renewable fuels…I reached a...
2008-06-16 “…The answer to our fiscal problems is not to continue to short-change investments in education, ...
2007-11-01 The central driver of American policy since September 11, 2001 is an overestimation of the threat...
1993-06-26 The USA, (Bill Clinton government), bombed Baghdad in retaliation for an alleged but unproven Ira...
2008-12-07 "We are willing to talk to them directly and give them a clear choice and ultimately let the...
2003-03-31 Frank Koza, chief of staff in the 'Regional Targets' section of the NSA sent a memo with orders t...
As General Petraeus said to me and others in Iraq, the coalition there could not kill its way out...