Political Cartoon!

Is the oil really worth it?

When we examine the reasons as to why we are fighting these wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, many have doubts as to if those reasons are actually true. Supposedly, the reason why entered the war in Iraq is because our government strongly believed that Iraq possessed nuclear weapons that could potentially start a nuclear war.

However, for some reason, even after discovering that Iraq did not have these so called nuclear weapons, our military is still overseas fighting this war in Iraq. So just why are we still there? One of the many possibilities as to why we find this war in Iraq and attaining Iraq so valuable is because of their source of oil.

My main focus in this blog is to ask one question. Is this all really worth it?

The political cartoon above provides a pretty important comparison that we must always remember. Every single day, we are losing soldiers overseas to this war, which could possibly be pointless. Since I am not a government official, it is impossible for me to say whether this assumption is true. What I have to say is that I know that if we are overseas for something as simple as oil, I would be extremely disappointed with the American government if they forget that we have soldiers dying everyday for this cause.