Iraq War

Introduction

The invasion of Iraq took place on March 19 and May 1, 2003. United States was the country that promoted the invasion, with support from Austria, Poland and Denmark, mainly. This invasion started the Iraq War. The causes of this outbreak, as controversial and disliked by much of the world, was the disarmament of Iraq, the liberation of an oppressed society by their leader, Saddam Hussein, who was also accused of supporting and promoting terrorism (Michael, pp. 177).

Background of War

Iraq has always played a central role in the oil market in the Middle East and in fact was the original source of oil in the region. A document of 1947 the government planning in the United States entitled "United States Petroleum Policy" states: the United States should seek the "elimination or modification of existing barriers to the expansion of American oil operations abroad" and " ... promote ... the entry of new American companies at all stages of foreign oil operations. " Until the mid-50's greatest "barrier" in Iraq was Britain, for whom the oil was the main reward for their early settlement in much of the region. In fact, when Standard Oil of California said the first issue in western Saudi Arabia in 1932, a much larger consortium and powerful was there to stop the deal, the "Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC). IPC, British rule, did not think it would make new discoveries of oil in Saudi Arabia mantles (general opinion at that time), and it had more oil than it could handle in Iraq, and that allowed the United States be made of a small niche in the Arabian Peninsula. The IPC, a precursor to companies like BP (British Petrol), Shell, Total (France) and Exxon, suppressed for many years the news of discovery of oil in Iraq and cloaks through several mechanisms kept low in order to maintain production high prices. These restrictive practices began in the 30's and continued until the 60's, as it was to discover the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations in the year 1974.

An internal document of the 1967 CPI shows that the company discovered huge deposits of oil, but "prevented its use and not classified in any way because the opening of such information would have prompted companies to" complicate its bargaining position with the Iraqi government .

However, foreign oil interests have a great enemy: nationalism, ie the trends of the leaders or the people themselves want to benefit from its own resources. For some years the Arab nationalists were led by Egyptian President Nasser, who was long most inspiring in the Arab world for its challenges to Western colonialism. Libya was the first country to become an enemy of the United States in 1969. Western companies in Libya supplying Europe with oil then were valuable because of its proximity and its low sulfur content (Hans, pp. 115).

Prelude to War

The movement was immensely popular: Vice President Saddam Hussein was summarized as: "Our wealth has come back to us." Now, the surviving members of ...