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**ThzinChang** · 01-12-2009, 04:32 PM

love this strawman..

BAGHDAD - More than six and a half years after the United States-led invasion here that many believed was about oil, the major oil companies are finally gaining access to Iraq’s petroleum reserves. But they are doing so at far less advantageous terms than they once envisioned.

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Iraq’s first stab at opening its oil industry to foreign investment ended in disappointment at an auction in June in which most companies declined to bid. But last month many of those same companies — including Exxon Mobil and Occidental Petroleum, the first American companies to reach production agreements with Baghdad since the 2003 invasion — signed deals at much the same terms they rejected over the summer.

“most companies declined to bid”.....so? Ah we went to war for oil..I see.

And as far as taking little now for a possbile score later, so what? Whats your issue ?

For starters, the Team Bush, blatanly lied to the American public about WMDs in Iraq so why then would we invade that country? There was never any link between Bin Laden/Al Quaeda and Saddam Hussein. Yes the man was a tyrant, but in HIS country. He was never a threat to us. What else would war do for the business elite?

Seeing as how, Exxon-Mobil didn't like the original deal, it would seem to me that the war helped them get an agreement. They already made their short term money with the spiking price of oil due directly to the war (Bush is an oil man is he not?) Now it's time to lay the foundation for the long-term. This war benefited them and had zero benefit for the American people and really no benefit for the Iraqi people. That much is clear and now with the country in shambles, it will not be hard to get slave labor to work the oil fields.

That whole region in the Middle east is going to be the stage for the next world war.

01-12-2009, 04:32 PM	#13
ThzinChang Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 508 Senior Member	love this strawman.. BAGHDAD - More than six and a half years after the United States-led invasion here that many believed was about oil, the major oil companies are finally gaining access to Iraq’s petroleum reserves. But they are doing so at far less advantageous terms than they once envisioned. and - Iraq’s first stab at opening its oil industry to foreign investment ended in disappointment at an auction in June in which most companies declined to bid. But last month many of those same companies — including Exxon Mobil and Occidental Petroleum, the first American companies to reach production agreements with Baghdad since the 2003 invasion — signed deals at much the same terms they rejected over the summer. “most companies declined to bid”.....so? Ah we went to war for oil..I see. And as far as taking little now for a possbile score later, so what? Whats your issue ? For starters, the Team Bush, blatanly lied to the American public about WMDs in Iraq so why then would we invade that country? There was never any link between Bin Laden/Al Quaeda and Saddam Hussein. Yes the man was a tyrant, but in HIS country. He was never a threat to us. What else would war do for the business elite? Seeing as how, Exxon-Mobil didn't like the original deal, it would seem to me that the war helped them get an agreement. They already made their short term money with the spiking price of oil due directly to the war (Bush is an oil man is he not?) Now it's time to lay the foundation for the long-term. This war benefited them and had zero benefit for the American people and really no benefit for the Iraqi people. That much is clear and now with the country in shambles, it will not be hard to get slave labor to work the oil fields. That whole region in the Middle east is going to be the stage for the next world war.
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