Reply #20: War is a racket and oil rackets are the most profitable

[DrDebug]

Remember the role the Berlin-Baghdad railway played in World War I. Even though the official history denies that WWI had anything to do with it, it was the major economic reason for that war and the first troops of the British army got stationed at Basra to protect the oil. That railway line would have given Germany access to the oil in Iraq.

The first World War was also about the OIL IN IRAQ! The world had to be divided into those who had oil and those who didn't have oil. That was the beginning of the 20th century and the start of wars for oil!

The Berlin-Baghdad Railway

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Throughout the years during which the railway was debated and the European Powers struggled to contain the Kaiser's ambitions, the seeds of distrust and malice were slowly and irrevocably sown. Combined with other sources of friction, including Germany's effort to rival Great Britian's sea power, this distrust was easily transformed into war. According to Morris Jastrow in "The War and the Bagdad Railway," the railway, which should have functioned to bring nations together as a medium for exchanging ideas and merchandise, was a primary cause of pulling them apart, leading them to mutual destruction.

By way of intrigue and deception, Germany brought Turkey into World War One and set it against Britian in the Middle East. The prizes were Egypt and the Suez Canal, which would mean control of the flow of oil from Persia and rubber from India. Great Britian, tenaciously clinging to its hold in the region, was at first thwarted in Mesopotomia and set with its back against Suez in Sinia. Eventually, she recovered, fought back, and defeated the Ottomans and their German allies.

The Baghdad Railway, its completion delayed for 18 years by economic attacks, strugged to be a contributing factor to the Turco-German military forces in the region. Throughout the war, track was laid and new spurs were planned.

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http://www.davidsjournal.com/WW1/baghdadrr.html