OIL IN THE MIDDLE EAST

• Middle East holds the worlds largest oil and gas reserves.
• The U.S runs on oil and gas

AILLES WITH SAUDI ARABIA. HYPOCRITES?

• Women are not allowed to vote and drive.
• They have a king not a president.

U.S. FIRST INTERESTED IN IRAQ

• 1950s
• Oil and conflict with the Soviet Union

1991 GULF WAR

• THE U.S. - LED COALITION OPERATED UNDER THE U.N. BANNER.
• The U.S freed the Kuwait.

U.S. STAYED IN THE IRAQ FOR 8 YEARS

• The U.S. claimed that Saddam Hussein had weapons.
• The 2001 terrorist attack

U.S. STAYED IN IRAQ FOR 8 YEARS

• To stop violence between Sunni and Shiite forces

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OUR COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP WITH EGYPT

• The military promises to hold election
• To step aside but the country may be spinning out of control
• U.S. made a deal with Egypt in 1979.
• U.S. give a billon $ to Egypt leave Israel alone.

U.S BEEN INVOLVED IN SYRIAN CRISIS

• Obama said the u.s would reconsider it's opposition to military.
• Assad's remaine deplayed on used chemical biological weapons.

HOW THE U.S WAS INVOLVED IN THE ISRAEL -PALESTINIAN CONFLICT /WHY?

• The Jews wanted to come back to the homeland
• Arab didn't want want the Jews to come back

HISTORIC ROOTS OF IRANS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE U.S.

• The u.s. is Israel ally and the Irans don't like it.

WHAT BUSH SAID ABOUT IRAN IN 2002

• An axis of evil
• Iran aggressively pursues of weapons and exports terror

U.S. COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP WITH EGYPT

• In 1979 we made a deal with Egypt
• So Egypt can leave Israel alone
• We give them a billon $ a year for the military

THE U.S. INVOLVED WITH SYRIAN CRISIS

• U.S. would reconsider its opposition to military involvement
• In Syria civil war if Assad regime deployed
• Syria used chemical or biological weapons

U.S. BEEN INVOLVED IN ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT

• The Jews wanted to come back to there home land.
• The Arab didn't want the Jews to come back.

HISTORIC ROOTS, IRANS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE U.S.

• Iran doesn't like Israel
• 1979 US hostage crisis
• 2003 "Axis of Evil"

WHAT BUSH SAID ABOUT IRAN IN 2002

• Iran is an axis of evil
• Iran aggressively pursues these weapons
• Exports terror