For all its good intentions and purposes the UN is a largely inept organization. We had member nations violate the oil for food arrangement Iraq had imposed on them. Our lovely comrades, Russia and France (UN members) bought oil for cheap in clear violation of the oil for food arrangement that Iraq agreed upon as part of its peace treaty. So our "ALLIES in the UN" had no vested interest in going to war again with Iraq. Why screw up a good thing. Buy oil cheaply benefiting their own countries.
Last I checked the US left Iraq on its own accord, and was not driven out, or did I miss them becoming a territory or the 51st state of the U.S. If the U.S. was in it for the oil we would have important billions and billions of gallons of oil from Iraq like there was no tomorrow. But that never happened the amount of oil we imported from Iraq stayed relatively the same from before the war.
On a personal note, I was in Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom 03-04. I myself didn't necessarily agree with all the reasons we went to war but, I think it was something that needed to be done. Many people hate Bush for what they would call a unnecessary war, but I view Bush differently. Bush made the unpopular decision to go to war and even after it was clear he did not win over the American population into why we needed to go to war with Iraq or as to why we stayed there for as long as we did, Bush through it all held firm to his beliefs. Sometimes a leader must do what is unpopular for the greater good. And that is why I still respect him to this day.
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