i thought the movie Blood and oil was very interesting and eye opening movie. I have known that one of the reasons that we have been there is because of the oil. i could not believe that America was going through 20 million barrels a day and 90% of its patrolium and we used 1/3 of our oil from the war. i thought that it was interesting how Roosevelt met with the man from Saudi Arabia and how he made a deal with him saying that he would protect them if he could have their oil. We made this plan even though we what type of people lived in Saudi Arabia, Monarchy. A place where women are treated with no respect and are not treated fairly. But we overlooked this and provided military training over there because of our deal receiving oil. We provide money for them to help them once again because of the oil. SO everything is based around the deal:OIL. i believe that our interest in the middle east is because it relates to the oil. i thoiught it was huge when mike klaresefan said that we will never be free of danger from the middle east until we pull apart the military that has been there to protect the oil!
what i thought was the strongest point of the movie was the fact that the put the two opposing views next to each other. In the beginning and end they gave clips of republican and government officials saying the war was to get Hussein out of power because he treated his people inhumanely, but because of our lust for oil we overlooked the abuse the people in Saudi Arabia were facing.
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