war against Iraq

More War anyone?
By Jon Leffert
Eng. 101-76
Why we Invaded Iraq


The Big V in Iraq


R
obert Dreyfuss say’s it pretty well in the Leo, If you were to spin the globe and
look for real estate critical to building an American empire, your first stop would
have to be the Persian Gulf. The Desert sands of this region hold two of every three barrels of oil in the world – Iraq’s reserves alone are equal, by some estimates, to those of Russia, the United States, China and Mexico combined. Wow, now that’s a lot of oil just think for a moment and visualized how big that really is and the many different needs and applications we have, then try and think how fast we can consume it all. Can you picture how much our own life would change due to a lack of this energy resource? The United States could become a very different place than what we know of it today. With out this energy resource the United States could no longer effectively protect it assets from outside in...