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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 invading nations and if it were, than we as a nation would soon find ourselves struggling amongst ourselves as individuals just to survive. Remember the thoughts that went through your head when the price of gas rose (I do), well now image if you could no longer purchase gas no matter how much money you had - what then?
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