consequences of the Iraq war
...ddle East, and enhance regional security. Personally Bush wanted to finish what his father began ten years ago, but with success! Did he succeed? We mustn’t forget that we are in an international context governed by the United Nation Organisation. Remember alike that the western countries such as the “old” France and Germany as also Mr Poutin said that if the United States made war, they were going to transgress the international rules. Suppositions « No blood for oil », that is the main argument of the people against war. Yes, indeed, it may be asked whether such important people say truth or not. Iraq contains 112 billion barrels of proven oil resources, the second largest in the world (behind Saudi Arabia) along with roughly 220 barrels of probable and possible resources. Iraq’s oil resources could satisfy current US oil imports for almost a century. Bush says that a pro-occidental Iraq as a strong exporter of oil would allow falling of the power of Saudi Arabia where terrorism comes from. But if Washington is such obsessed by Iraq rather than North Korea more threatening, it’s due to the will preventing Saddam to get weapons allowing him to threaten the Gulf and its oil. Moreover, it would seem Mr Rumsfeld suggested: “why not Iraq”? Consequences The 7th September 2004, one thousand American soldiers have died. Nearly ten thousands of Iraqi people have died. The actual situation is surely not what they had envisaged at the beginning. The European Community is divided now. England and Spain are close to the United States, and the others against. The international community is also worried about the new guidelines implemented by the EU on the international scene. The Bush administration estimates their country had to take the decis...