I know it probably doesn't bare mentioning, but since I'm the kind of guy who is disgusted with the Liberal blaspheming of America, I must note that the first oil contracts being awarded by the Iraqi government are not going to American companies, but are instead going to China, India, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
Remember, prominent members of your Democratic Party told you this was all about oil. That Bush's war was a war of American imperialism. Remember Michael Moore, Jimmy Carter, Teddy Kennedy, Howard Dean. Remember the things they have said about our country, our President.
Yeah, remember those things, and then read this (from CNN):
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Despite claims by some critics that the Bush administration invaded Iraq to take control of its oil, the first contracts with major oil firms from Iraq's new government are likely to go not to U.S. companies, but rather to companies from China, India, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
While Iraqi lawmakers struggle to pass an agreement on exactly who will award the contracts and how the revenue will be shared, experts say a draft version that passed the cabinet earlier this year will likely uphold agreements previously signed by those countries under Saddam Hussein's government.
Look for prominent Democrats to now assign blame to the Bush Administration for NOT having demanded that the oil contracts go to American companies.
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The contracts under consideration are small.
Aljibury said the Chinese agreement is to produce about 70,000 barrels of oil a day, while the Vietnamese one is for about 60,000.
It's hard to put a dollar amount on what those contracts might be worth, as security costs, drilling conditions and the exact terms to be offered by Baghdad are unknown, said Christopher Ruppel, a senior geopolitical analyst with the consulting firm John S. Herold.
But the barrel amount is tiny even by Iraq's depressed post-war production of around 2 million barrels a day.
According to a letter supplied by John S. Herold's Ruppel, memorandums of understanding have been signed with all the oil majors for several years. And Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani has said the country plans to tender for major oil projects in the second half of 2007.
Steve Kretzmann, executive director of Oil Change International, an industry watchdog group, criticized the draft oil law for allowing long-term oil contracts to be awarded to foreign oil firms, a practice he said was unique in the Middle East.
"Giving out a few crumbs to the Chinese and Indians is one thing," said Kretzmann, who noted the draft law was seen by both the Bush administration and the International Monetary Fund before it was given to Iraq's parliament. "But the real prize are the contracts that award long-term rights. I think the [Western oil companies] are biding their time."
People like you will never give up in your propitiation to the angry god of anti-Americanism, will you?
MarkG8 (clever name for a man enchained by irony), the war has cost $250 billion. How many years will it take to make that up?
If war for oil was the plan, then it was one of the stupidest business models ever devised, and they would have had an impossible time finding venture capital for such a model.
However, a guy like you probably wouldn't be able to figure out such a thing, considering you've probably never been responsible for more than $40-50K a year.
Guys like you never come from the business world. They always come from the fairy-tale make-believe world of academia where finance is all theoretical.
Keep waiting, I'm sure one of these days you will find conclusive proof that George Bush really is Satan.
oil is fungible.
we don't need to control it at the well-head. we can buy it on the open market.
all the "bushitlerhalliburton" clan had to do to get iraqi oil was go along with the un/france and take saddam OFF of sanctions.
that would have opened up iraq immediately.
obviously there was more at stake than access to oil.
i suggest that the so-called anti-war folks actually read bush's UNGA speech in september 2002 - six months BEFORE the war.
he spells it ALL out: defiance of the unscr's in a post-9/11 world was no longer acceptable.
he meant what he said.
al qaeda and iran have since the fall of saddam decided to make iraq the focus of their anti-West efforts.
(iran also has been very active in lebanopn/syria/israel.)
and al qaeda is also very active in pakistan/afghanistan and their associates in thailand, kashmir,and the philippines. and the horn of africa -somalia and ethiopia.
their killing spree in thailnad obviously has nothing to do with israel or the occupied territories or oil or neoconservatives.
therefore i assert that the battles we faces on LL these fronts is inescapably part of a global jihad.
this is butressed by the fact that our enemy assertr it is too.
so, markG*: wake up, and smell reality.
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