Quote Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
Sweet Sounds like all the Big Business in WAR and Oil Will be getting Big Pockets.

Irans oil industry has been neglected for over 20 years and is in terrible shape. After a war, it would be like starting from scratch. By the way, how many U.S. oil companies are in Iraq as compared to lets say Norwegian and Canadian?

Have a good one!:jointsmile:
Future of Iraq: The spoils of war
he US government has been involved in drawing up the law, a draft of which has been seen by The Independent on Sunday. It would give big oil companies such as BP, Shell and Exxon 30-year contracts to extract Iraqi crude and allow the first large-scale operation of foreign oil interests in the country since the industry was nationalised in 1972.
The huge potential prizes for Western firms will give ammunition to critics who say the Iraq war was fought for oil. They point to statements such as one from Vice-President Dick Cheney, who said in 1999, while he was still chief executive of the oil services company Halliburton, that the world would need an additional 50 million barrels of oil a day by 2010. "So where is the oil going to come from?... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies," he said.

Posted Jan 6, 2007 05:12 PM PST
Category: IRAQ


So the American troops who are fighting and dying in Iraq are not fighting and dying because Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, or because Saddam Hussein was in any way a threat to the US: they are dying for oil.
NewsIndependent.UK

So tell us again how this is about .... what .... freedom and democracy .... not oil?:toilet_claw: :stupid: :madnoel:

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GrowRebel Reviewed by GrowRebel on . Iraq launches drive to subdue Baghdad BAGHDAD, Iraq - In the opening battle of a major drive to tame the violent capital, the Iraqi army reported it killed 30 militants Saturday in a firefight in a Sunni insurgent stronghold just north of the heavily fortified Green Zone. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, speaking only hours earlier at a ceremony marking the 85th anniversary of the Iraqi army, announced his intention for the open-ended attempt to crush the militant fighters who have left Baghdad in the grip of sectarian violence. Rating: 5