How did the Iraq War in 2003 help the USA maintain oil interests in the Middle East?

by This_is_what_you_ge
Bernardito

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CRHrookie

The US receives virtually no oil from Iraq. The greatest importer of Iraqi oil is Turkey. It's not economically viable to export oil from Iraq to the US. The largest contributors of oil to US is Canada, Mexico and Saudi Arabia.