What makes a war happen

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What makes a war happen?

• Backstage of the American attack against Iraq in
  1991

Part of the material for the course Models and
Natural Resources Management 1, Milan Technical
University.
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The expenses for the Gulf war

• 40 billion US dollars

or 42 billion euros
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But who paid for this?

• Instinctively we say that the 40 billion, was
  paid by the USA

This is partially true indeed
40 BILLION
25 of the expenses was paid by the USA (10
billion)
75 of the expenses was paid by the Arab
countries, specifically by Kuwait and Saudi
Arabia (30 billion )
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Where did they find this money?

• The oil price before the war was approx. 15 per
  barrel...

but with the Gulf war, it rose to 42 per
barrel, generating an EXTRA profit of about 60
billion
Who did this profit go to?
In the Arab countries the fifty fifty law is
valid 50 to the state and 50 to the
multinational that controls the oil deposit.
This gives us
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Where did they find this money?

• Net profit from the increase in the price of oil
  60 billion

30 billion to the oil companies
30 billion to the governments of the Arab
states (Kuwait Saudi Arabia)
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Who owns the oil companies?
In the Middle East, the extraction and trading of
oil is in the hands of the 7 Sister (Shell,
Tamoil, Esso), all of which are American, and 5
are state owned.
30 billion
Approx. 21 billion to the American State
Approx. 9 billion to the American private sector
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Lets make some calculations
Profit 11 billion
Profit 9 billion
Now all is clear USA have made a profit of 20
billion from the war! It had nothing to do with
Free Kuwait they were only after the cheese !
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But this is not over yet

• Finally, who paid the 91 war against Iraq?

Those who use the oil
which means us!!!
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But this is not over yet

• So, the USA, have made a total profit of...

11 billion from the oil
49 billion from the weapons!!!
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But this is not over yet

• 2. Where did the 40 billion spent for the war
  go?

To the war industry, all of which just happens to
be almost exclusively
AMERICAN!!!
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Last thoughts

• Now it is easy to assume that the Gulf war in
  1991,happened for financial reasons only, and
  not for some humanitarian reason or for the
  right to freedom.

But now it is easy to understand two other
eventsthe reason behind the war in Afghanistan
and the new war against Iraq
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Last thoughts

• The war in Afghanistan had as a main target the
  installation of a pawn government that would
  agree with the construction of a pipe line
  (American owned), of 2.500 km length that would
  run across its territory.

This strategically important pipe line, has as
unique alternative, the construction of another
one, of 5.500 km lenght, much more costly to
construct and maintain, due to the taxes that
would be imposed to the USA by the countries
through which it would run.
It is much easier to reduce to dust a country
already tormented by 30 years of war and turn it
into your annex, with the possibility of
constructing and managing the shortest pipe line
without any trouble at all.
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Last thoughts

• To understand why Bush jr. wants to attack Iraq
  again, we must know that the main supplier of oil
  in the Middle East is Saudi Arabia.

The rupture of their relationship cannot be
mended, because Saudi Arabia is one of the
countries involved in the Bin Laden, terrorist
movement and because the International Public
Opinion is against this country due to their lack
of respect of the Human rights.
So, the Bush administration has a goal to find
an alternative oil supplier except for Saudi
Arabia in the Middle East.
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Last thoughts

• The easiest way, of course, is a war in Iraq and
  the installation of a pawn government under USA
  guidance. The answer that spontaneously comes to
  mind is Why Iraq?
• For 3 simple reasons

It is a country that cannot defend itself
(poverty due to the embargo is killing 300.000
babies/year due to malnutrition).
Iraq offers an easy excuse (the presence of
non-existent weapons of mass destruction, that
can be only produced with high technology which
Iraq does not have) to justify the attack to the
International community that knows nothing about
oil deposits. Until now, Iraq does not have the
support of a powerful nation, that would be in
the position to withstand the American threat.
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Last thoughts
On top of this, in the last 3 years, a social
revolution has taken place in Venezuela, due to
the terrible living conditions.
Venezuela is the greatest oil supplier for the
USA. The Bush administration had to find an alter
native to Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.
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What can we do?

• Inform as many people as you can about the true
  reasons behind this war. An ignorant person is
  easy to control. A person thinking logically can
  resist!

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