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Power Of Oil

The Power of Oil
With the conflict that is going on in Iraq currently, also known as the second Persian Gulf War, it is important to know the background of what is going on. The media that most people see in magazines and television today is usually filtered and presented from a strong one sided point of view, therefore leading to false or corrupt information. The world is currently dependent on oil and the majority of oil found today comes from the Middle East, which leads into much controversy. Through the creation of Iraq, the uprising of Saddam Hussein, conflicts in the Middle East, and the Persian Gulf War, many dots can be connected on why the conflicts continue to get worse.
Before World War I, the Turkish Ottoman Empire had complete control of the Middle East and it was a whole, with no separate nations. After losing World War I, the Ottoman Empire was dismantled and the majority of the land was claimed Great Britain and several other victors of the war such as France. What was not claimed, still remains today as Turkey. In the year 1921, Great Britain combined several parts of the land to create the nation of Iraq, as agreed in the Sykes-Picot Agreement. The creation of this nation would soon cause many drastic problems in the East due to three major ethnic and religious groups being forced to share the same land: Shi'ah (Shiite) Muslims, Sunni Muslims, and Kurds. Soon after, Britain instated King Faisal I to be the Iraqi leader, but he was a weak leader and the Iraqis were livid at the fact that Britain had not kept their agreement that Iraq would have full independence for the help in overthrowing the Turks. Britain had some reasons to hold control of the land, with the discovery of oil in the area and Iraq being a land route to the Persian Gulf (Jason). With the strong British military control, the Iraqis had very little say at this time in the future of their new nation. Eventually, Iraq gained its full independence in the year...