J.B. Russell: Crude Conflicts in Iraq

Since 1991 there have been two major wars in the Persian Gulf involving the United States, its allies and Iraq - both under a Bush presidency. Although many reasons were advanced to justify these military interventions: the liberation of Kuwait, weapons of mass destruction, the war on terror, regime change and so on, they were essentially conflicts to secure supplies of crude oil to a world increasingly dependent on petroleum based forms of energy. Five years after the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, the country’s oil output, although improving, is still far below the Saddam era average and only a little over half its decades-old peak record of 3.7 billion barrels a day – a level at which Iraq might become a vital source of oil for thirsty world markets and sky rocketing prices. Instead, the price of a barrel of oil has increased five-fold since George W. Bush took office. While the wars in Iraq have done little to secure Western oil interests, they have deeply divided the international community, devastated the region and inflicted ineffable turmoil, hardship and suffering on the Iraqi people.

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