The Chinese may not be getting all the oil, but they’re getting some.
The spoils of war were something a lot of American oil companies
apparently took for granted, as they lost big in auctions for a
massive chunk of Iraq’s oil reserves.
Oil magnates who took the “blood for oil” mantra literally will have
to look elsewhere.
Webmaster's Commentary:
I'm sure that folks like T. Boone Pickens were assured, behind the
closed doors in the Bush/Cheney era, that they would get the rights to
most of the oil in Iraq.
That is the only factor which can account for the absolute, self-
aggrandizing arrogance of Pickens' statement that "...we're entitled
to it."
One has to wonder just how many of Picken's relatives were on the
ground during combat operations in Iraq. I would be willing to bet;
absolutely none.
But I want every family member of every US solder who fought, died, or
got maimed for life to understand just what the objective of this war
and occupation truly was; control over Iraq's oil.
This was about private companies profiting from the blood and money
spent on the invasion and occupation of Iraq to obtain its oil.
And now, it appears that is absolutely not going to happen.
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/12/14/despite-sense-of-entitlement-us-companies-lose-iraq-oil-auctions/
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Hey! You mean instead of slaughtering 1.5 million brown people,
torturing & terrorizing many times more,
and rendering even more homeless
by destroying their entire country...
we could have simply CUT DEALS???
Gosh golly, who would have guessed?
10 years ago when this mess began. Russia and china were hiring US oil
companies to drill for oil. Russia especially, so our oil companies
figured that would continue no doubt, americans being so capable and
brilliant etc.
it has not continued. the USSR has learned to drill and produce its
own oil... and china can purchase such expertise from them and
others. Hubris has never paid off long term it seems.
Phil scott
> Despite Sense of Entitlement, US Companies Lose Iraq Oil Auctions
>
> The Chinese may not be getting all the oil, but they’re getting some.
> The spoils of war were something a lot of American oil companies
> apparently took for granted, as they lost big in auctions for a
> massive chunk of Iraq’s oil reserves.
>
> Oil magnates who took the “blood for oil” mantra literally will have
> to look elsewhere.
Pretzel's real grievance is that all that oil in Iraq isn't being used
to fund terrorist activities.
> Webmaster's Commentary:
>
> I'm sure that folks like T. Boone Pickens were assured, behind the
> closed doors in the Bush/Cheney era, that they would get the rights to
> most of the oil in Iraq.
Didn't happen, despite this guy's assurances.
> That is the only factor which can account for the absolute, self-
> aggrandizing arrogance of Pickens' statement that "...we're entitled
> to it."
Or the fact that U.S. oil companies used to own the oil producing
facilities before it was nationalized.
> One has to wonder just how many of Picken's relatives were on the
> ground during combat operations in Iraq. I would be willing to bet;
> absolutely none.
>
> But I want every family member of every US solder who fought, died, or
> got maimed for life to understand just what the objective of this war
> and occupation truly was; control over Iraq's oil.
Pretzel would rather have the oil controlled by Saddam Hussein who
used it to fund terrorist activities and military aggression.
> This was about private companies profiting from the blood and money
> spent on the invasion and occupation of Iraq to obtain its oil.
He is sorry that terrorist organizations have been deprived of funds
from Iraqi oil.
> And now, it appears that is absolutely not going to happen.
He regrets that its use to fund terrorism isn't going to happen.
> http://news.antiwar.com/2009/12/14/despite-sense-of-entitlement-us-co...
>
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>
> Hey! You mean instead of slaughtering 1.5 million brown people,
> torturing & terrorizing many times more,
> and rendering even more homeless
> by destroying their entire country...
Didn't happen.
> we could have simply CUT DEALS???
Terrorist organizations weren't open to deals.
> Gosh golly, who would have guessed?
Not Pretzel.
This was about being a vassal state of Israel.
Bin Ladin
"
"I say to you, as Allah is my witness: We had not considered
attacking
the towers, but things reached the breaking point when we
witnessed
the iniquity and tyranny of the American-Israeli coalition
against our
people in Palestine and Lebanon – then I got this idea."
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP8...
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"We ask Allah that they only get out of it after losing 200 to
300
hundred
thousand killed, in order that we give the spillers of
blood in
Washington
and Europe an unforgettable lesson, which will
motivate them to
review their
entire doctrinal and moral system
which produced their historic
criminal
Crusader-Zionist entity," al-
Zawahiri says.
Suicide bombers are WMD.
Al-Arabiya TV Report: Iranian Volunteer
Suicide Bomber Organization
of
40,000 "Time Bombs" Recruited to
Target Americans in Iraq and
Israel
http://www.worldjewishnewsagency.org/terrorists_watch_zone.htm
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Looks like Iran may be next because of WMD.
>> the USSR has learned to drill and produce its
>> own oil... and china can purchase such expertise from them and
>> others. Hubris has never paid off long term it seems.
They both learned that Capitalism works and that Capitalism will drill
their oil for them, because the Russia and China governments weren't
smart enough to drill their own oil.