Chapter 5 Iraq wake-up call

Despite strong opposition from the three permanent members of the UN Security Council, the Bush administration made a unilateral decision to invade Iraq in 2003, a wake-up call to the world.Governments other than the US government are well aware that Saddam Hussein has no ties to Al Qaeda and no ties to Osama bin Laden.Saddam thought bin Laden was a destructive fanatic.Saddam also had nothing to do with WMD.Iraq poses absolutely no threat to the United States, nor does it pose a threat to NATO members in Europe. The governments of many countries in the world have a consensus that the reason why the Bush-Cheney administration spared no effort to occupy Iraq is related to the control of oil, and the more oil it controls, the better.Iraq's untapped oil reserves are estimated to be the second largest in the world after Saudi Arabia.

As we all know, oil companies in China, Russia, and France have long signed oil exploration agreements with the Saddam government. Once the United Nations sanctions imposed at the request of the United States after the US-Iraq War in 1991 are lifted, these countries can start to exploit unexploited oil fields in Iraq. .