Mission Accomplished: Exxon Mobil Posts $39.5 Billion Profit in 2006

Hassan El-Najjar, Aljazeerah.info

Researchers and students of the US foreign policy should notice this news and reference it as support for their hypotheses about why Bush was adamant to invade and occupy Iraq. War creates chaos and insecurity in the crude oil market, which leads to the skyrocketing of prices. Ultimately, the unprecedented high prices fill the coffers of the owners of the oil industry with trillions of dollars. When Bush Sr. decided to go to war to evict Iraqis from Kuwait in 1991, rejecting all peace initiatives for a peaceful Iraqi withdrawal, the prices of crude oil were $13 per barrel. Last year, his son's policies escalated them to over $75 per barrel...

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