The United States Lucrative Middle East Oil & Reconstruction Profits Have Soared. Large Corporations Are Reaping Billions While Local Inhabitants Suffer.

Thanks to the two U.S. wars in Iraq, the United States lucrative Middle East oil keeps flowing and multi-national corporations from the United States have made record profits in oil, reconstruction projects and private security contracts with the government.

Firms such as Halliburton, and the Carlyle group that are owned by Dick Cheney and the Bush family have also made windfall profits and been awarded lucrative government contracts from the destruction and the outright cold-blooded murder of over one million Iraqi civilians.

The Bush family also has a long history of associating with the Saudi Royal family as well as the bin-Ladens. In fact, Salem bin Laden, Osama’s brother, provided former President George W. Bush with financing for his first oil venture, Arbusto Oil in 1977.

Suspiciously, the entire bin Laden family living in the United States was flown out and their airplane was the only aircraft that was allowed to take off in the entire country immediately after the September 11th attacks in 2001. Could that favoritism possibly be a coincidence?

The U.S. mainstream media would soon be pointing the finger at Tim Osman a.k.a. Osama Bin Laden, the longtime CIA asset, for the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, consequently his family had to be flown out to protect the United States lucrative Middle East oil interests.

United States Dependence on Foreign Oil

The United States consumes about 20 million barrels of oil a day, which amounts to three times the amount of the next largest consumer: China, which consumes seven million barrels a day and more than the entire European Community combined.

The United States has only two percent of the world’s proven oil reserves, and it needs to constantly import foreign oil to keep the country running smoothly.

Because of the high amount of oil product consumption in the United States, transnational oil companies and foreign governments collude and manipulate the oil price constantly.

In 2008, the price of oil rose to an all-tine high of $145 per barrel, bringing gasoline prices to over five dollars per gallon in some places.

The Wars on Iraq were for Oil

The US lucrative Middle East forays have only served the purposes of the criminal factions controlling the United States government.

Vast oil interests in the Middle East benefitted, such as Exxon and Mobile, as did Halliburton and Kellogg, Brown and Root, now known as KBR, who were awarded giant government contracts to rebuild Iraq.

Otherwise, the war has been a drain on the armed forces, with almost four thousand American soldiers killed since 2003.

The U.S. taxpayers are also being burdened by the wars since they are footing the $1 trillion dollar bill during especially challenging economic times.

Obama’s Promise to End the War

As of this writing, it looks like a gradual withdrawal from Iraq is currently under way, with 4,000 soldiers coming home in October of 2009.

A complete withdrawal is projected for sometime in 2011, unless some unforeseen event like a false flag event or renewed violence prolongs the occupation.

Unfortunately, Obama then sent most of the withdrawn troops out to Afghanistan, leaving many of his anti-war supporters highly disappointed in him.

Furthermore, despite nearly 56% of the United States lucrative Middle East foreign aid going to Israel, the current Obama administration has warmed to the Arab world, with Obama even bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia on April 1st 2009 in London.

Was that an April Fools Day joke on Americans perhaps?

Clearly the United States lucrative Middle East interests must be pretty important for the newly-elected American President to feel he has to bow down to a foreign, slave-owning king.

It’s high time for America to regain its pride by breaking its addiction to foreign oil products and foreign wars.