Iraqi Government To Sell Off State-Owned Assets: Big Payoffs For Western Contractors
By Logan Murphy Monday Jul 02, 2007 7:20pm
The Telegraph Via The Raw Story:
The Iraqi government has begun preparing the groundwork for what could be one of the biggest privatisations of state-owned assets.
The Sunday Telegraph has learned that officials from the government have recently held talks with banking and legal advisers in London. City sources said Iraq's minister for industry, Fawzi Hariri, was looking to appoint advisers to draw up a memorandum of understanding to sell off the country's non-oil assets, ranging from petrochemical plants to construction companies, hotels and airlines, as early as this month.
The privatisation proposals could also include a massive extension of foreign participation in the oil industry. Sources close to the foreign ministry said the government believed it had struck a deal on the long-awaited hydrocarbon law which could see Parliament vote the legislation through in two weeks' time. If the legislation is passed, arrangements to allow foreign oil majors to enter into production-sharing agreements with Iraq's national oil company could then make it into the memorandum. Read more...
This is why we're still in Iraq. President Bush and his cronies have spent a lot of blood, sweat and tears to earn a slice of the Iraqi pie and they aren't leaving till they get it.
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Bush "wrote" in his autobiography, A Charge To Keep, "I don't believe my role is to replace the verdict of a jury with my own."
Big Fourth of July Sale -- in Iraq.
Get used to the new globalization. It's called Empire. Think of all the countries that could be privatized and then their citizens taxed on the daily services they require. It so simple; it's criminal. (The USA is for sale too.)
ah, if he were still around, it would make old uncle adolf so proud...
when i read about the super base being built in iraq, bigger then vatican city, i kinda knew, that there was no way in hell, the USA was going to depart from Iraq anytime soon.
a 5 billion dollar embassy? Nice, and the folks in the states keep on going without healthcare, jobs, etc.
Heck of job bushie loyalist who voted for that moron.
I think this is the proverbial last nail in the coffin I have been expecting in regards to Iraq.
Why don't the Bush regime and the puppet government he set up in Iraq just pay Al Qaeda to bomb and kill all the civilians. By next year the country we'll be empty and Bush could change its name to East Virginia (West Virginia was already taken).
for oil
Because of the nucular weapons
Because of the chemical weapons
Because a dictator needed to be removed
Because they want freedom
Because we cannot waste the lives lost and the money spent
for oil
Therein lies the case for criminal impeachment.
I wonder...
The Billions we used on Iraq to rebuild their infrastructure (most of which went to Haliberton) were used to create things like electrical plants, etc. Now, the Iraq government is going to sell these off to western companies?
Wow... Haliberton gets paid to build stuff they will then get to own; all of it with U.S. taxpayer money and protected by U.S. troops. What a deal!!!!
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Friar Tuck @ 5:
Not to be picky; but in reality the U.S. Embassy in Iraq's Green Zone was initially
estimated to cost $392Million, but last figures I saw indicated the cost would be
just in excess of $495 Million...but what the heck, what is a few million here and
a few million there between "cronie contractors"..
So there it is...the Choice for Iraqi's: serfdom in service of the West or death.
I like this statement from Arvin Hiil Carnival of Horror blog
"The Age of the American Hero is over and no rising tide of wistful, bloggy tears will bring it back. The Republic has been looted and torched, leaving Americans of conscience to choose one of two mutually exclusive options: leaderless revolution or slavery."
Well isn't that just precious.
well a embassy bigger then vatican city would indeed cost in the billions right?
unless what i was reading was complete bull...t I will stand by my words.
Friar Tuck @ 5:
College education and healthcare are expensive for a reason. A dumbed down populace is easier to control. We kid ourselves that we live in a Democracy. A democracy is where the power rests in the people. The power in this country DOES not rest in the people. We have become arrogant and ignorant. Wave a flag in people's face and they'll follow you like a herd. Ask them to join in on an intelligent debate and they'll pull out their cell phones and watch Paris Hilton instead.
People usually don't wake up until it's too late.
You mean the state owned assets I paid for?
Yep. A lot of ours.
Bring on a Turnpike rest area named after me! Let it thus betoken my legacy, and so too the Roy Rogers fixins' bar contained therein. Oyez! Huzzah! And other joyous old-timey skidoo!
we're not going to see that in the "headline news"
that would go contrary to state propaganda
i don't think our freedom is why they hate us.
if i were an iraq, i would probably be fighting the occupation and theft.
Ah, yes, that telling little scene in Farenheit 9/11: "It's going to be good for business, bad for the people."
Any Michael Moore detractors can just STFU right about now.
Folks, this war was about securing sources of energy for decades to come……………..
so that big oil, Cheney and his buddies can each have a retirement island of their own.
Do you think they did it for you because they care about the average American?
Logan Murphy
This is why we’re still in Iraq. President Bush and his cronies have spent a lot of blood, sweat and tears to earn a slice of the Iraqi pie and they aren’t leaving till they get it.
But it isn't THEIR blood, THEIR sweat, and THEIR tears.
There have been 3,869 coalition deaths --
3,584 Americans, two Australians,
156 Britons,
13 Bulgarians,
one Czech,
seven Danes, two Dutch,
two Estonians, one Fijian,
one Hungarian, 33 Italians,
one Kazakh,
one Korean, t
hree Latvian,
20 Poles,
two Romanians,
five Salvadoran,
four Slovaks,
11 Spaniards,
two Thai
and 18 Ukrainians --
in the war in Iraq as of July 3, 2007
And tomorrow, as all the dudes suck down beers and jet-ski on lakes, and get "f**ked-up "celebrating" the 4th of July, do you think one of them might give a rat's ass about the numbers above?
Slice of the Iraqi pie?
Friar Tuck @ 13:
You can easily "google" U.S. Embassy in Iraq and find several websites that give the
whole(or is it hole) story about the cost of the many, many facilities. Initially, it was
estsimated to cost just about one (1) Billion, but Congress appropriated "only" $592MILLION
for construction costs....I have no idea as to where the remaining approx. $500 million is
coming from...surely hope not more from us U.S. Taxpayers...
Does this really surprise anyone?
This outfit would sell Jenna and Barbara to a Saudi prince if they could get away with it.
So lets see we'll have Bush Stadium. Dickafeller Center and what else? George Bush Sr. Turnpike. Condi Rice Harbor. Rumsfeld Park.
i wonder if china will be a big buyer??
they keep america afloat by buying bonds, seems they didn't put up too
much of a stink when we invaded iraq.
and where will that money go???? given how corrupt everything is over there
(we're not doing so well over here) i bet we'll see news stories of lotted iraq funds, and they just don't know where the money went to.
EJ Doyle @ 21:
I'm staying at home tomorrow and painting my garage. I won't be celebrating the 4th until I get back what the Neo cons have stolen from all of us, the US of A.
What's there to celebrate? Wire taps? Gitmo? Torture?
I truly hope that only very intelligent and ambitious people join the army nowadays who know for certain that they will make it to the high ranks to manage, not to be managed, otherwise all they will do is turn themselves into a cannon meat knowingly and stupidly. Period. Patriotism? Well, the article gives you the essence of American patriotism and what this noun is used for. Anyway, free medical help for the veterans and financial aid for the families is "guaranteed" so what are you waiting for guys and girls, defend America by reconstructing and privatizing Iraq, we the people count on you, not like on the WWII soldiers, but like on the White House and Corporate servants with guns kinda soldiers. Geez. Whatever is next, it's gonna be bloody bad.
"Smaller, maverick oil companies have already invested in Kurdish-controlled areas of Iraq".
DNO?
DNO stock already had its surge back in '05.
#15 kerplunck
Yes. It has been going on for decades.
Socialize the cost.
Privitize the profit.
No big surprise.
this must be why cheney has made that pallet or two of money disappear so he can buy up the oil rights for himself with stolen money from the true citizens of the United States.
fuck bush fuck cheney fuck rove
I held my breath and went over to Red State to see what they were saying about Libby and they had the oil law story:
http://www.redstate.com/stories/war/the_iraqi_hydrocarbon_law
With no comments.
But look on the bright side, the Iraqi people will hate us for pretty much here on out. We are basically setting up another Shah but it won't last nearly as long. Iran must be laughing their asses off at how we are handing Iraq to them.
Any money raised will simply end up in a Swiss or Cayman bank for when the Iraqis in the Green Zone government have to run for their lives.
blackwater will no doubt be getting more contracts with private firms that buy these
industries. lot's of money ...very lucrative.
our leaders look more and more like the villains
in the old james bond flicks. tainting elections. overthrowing
democracies. privatizing and looting common wealths.
private armies.
EJ Doyle @ 21:
Uh, I think you might want to include the tens -- or hundreds -- of thousands of innocent Iraqis who have also needlessly died via this invasion. Let's distinguish ourselves from the rightwingers who NEVER include Iraqis in their death count. They all matter.
All this paid for by you folks in the states. Do you think you will get that back? Do you think the 640,000 lives lost in Iraq, families shattered over there and the 3500 American who lost their lives thinking they were fighting for freedom actually have been fighting for this is worth it????? Bush and Co. should pay you folks back monetarily but guess what he has in store for you. Slavery. Economic slavery. This whole thing makes me sick!!!! Bush and all his buddies are laughing to the World Bank and the 10 trillion debt the United States will face be left for the hard working taxpayer and their children and their children to pay back. This would make for a great Dr Suess book.
baby jesus is fearing for the safety of Keith O.
they will get to him eventually, even baby jesus may not be able to keep him safe
god bless kieth oberman and screw the trolls!
Doggiebobo
If your so hell bent on defending the bush admin and its waste of money on a pet project that will cost more lives , fine!
But please spare me your condecending whip ok?
BIGGER THEN THE VATICAN CITY!! WTF are you not getting here? google that Mkky!
baby jesus @ 37:
Yes, Keith just hit a homerun, and Dan Abrams followed up with a homerun of his own.
... I'm surprised Keith Olbermann has lasted this long, particularly given who owns MSNBC.
EJ Doyle,
PLEASE don't forget the iraqi civilians. They're countless, but they're Bush's victims, too.
Of course its about the oil..come on..was there ever any doubt?
This is why we’re still in Iraq. President Bush and his cronies have spent a lot of blood, sweat and tears to earn a slice of the Iraqi pie and they aren’t leaving till they get it.
With all due respect Logan Murphy , THAT is why these criminals went in to begin with.
someone should tally up the REAL expense of the war.
the buriials,, on both sides, the loss of income, on both sides, the hospital bills on both sides,
the mental health $ fees on both sides, the rebuliding of shady buildings that contractors built and were deemed non inhabitabal, on both sides, the cost of medical bills from wounds substained, on both sides and the new buldings going up in iraq in the green zone and just outside it, soon to be merged with the green zone,, thats on one side!
not to mention the taxes the US ppl pay for the war, as its citizens go without .
um,, yeah,,,,its in the billions !
All I can say is, Kieth kicked some ass tonight! I look forward to watching it again here on C&L.
Friar Tuck @ 44:
The question Americans should also be asking is how much money Bush and his cronies are skimming from these enterprises. We might be seeing another Fernando Marcos or Baby Doc Duvalier, who fled their countries with the national treasury. Given the incestuous relationship between war contractors and Bush/Cheney, it would surprise me as little as the Libby commutation.
I LOVE KO!
And I'm not the least bit surprised that Western companies are gonna rake in BILLIONS more from the Iraq FUBAR.
Not the least bit surprised.
Outraged, yes. Surprised, no.
I LOVE KO!
when dubya talks about "success" in iraq, this is what he means.
dmob @ 48:
You're not kidding.
This is exactly what he means.
PNAC's money shot in this twisted porn.
I just read the book "Emperial Life in the Emerald City" by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. THis book really puts into context and perspective what it means to the Iraqis and how it will affect their lives directly to sell off the State-owned assets. The US doesn't give a rip about the Iraqis. This is totally about protecting what is perceived as US interests, and interests to international corporations that want to go in a make money.
Read it.
If the pimp is in the crib
Wait a minute: When Iraqis sell their assets, why is it a benefit for the Western Contractors? Supposedly the benefit should be for the Iraqi people.
Who/what is buying into Iraq; and why will they do a better job than those already there?
If they can do a better job, why weren't they first allowed to bid on the original contracts?
Where's Congressman Waxman. . .
Let's not forget that good liberal Democrats like Congressman Obey made "reform" of the Iraqui national oil laws one of ther "benchmarks" for success in Iraq.
So let's not just rail agains "BUSH AND HIS CRONIES". Until you realize that the Democrats ARE Bush's cronies, then you will always be the sucker.
YAAAAAAAAAAY Democrats! They are (marginally) lesser evil - at least we thought they were.
Suckers.
This article was a hoot! Did anyone in their right minds really believe that we were in Iraq for WMD's or to spread liberty an democracy in the Middle east? If you did, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell....toll booths included.
The Council On Foreign Relations which is our shadow government had this planned over a decade ago. It was always just a mteer of time before the right wingnut could be placed in office. You know it's funny, but if you were to reduce the worlds problems to one simple denominatior, it's always about money and the outright greed on the American corprotocracy.
This is pretty much the image of the USA many countries have had for ages. Now that Bush is in power, he doesn't even attempt to hide the workings of American foreign policy, based on filthy lucre. I've always heard people (Americans) say, "But we do so much good for the world, and they don't seem to appreciate it." Yes, but, it doesn't erase all the bad that seems not to get into any of your MSM. I'm just saying, there's more to anti-American sentiments, as people in other parts of the world have to LIVE the truth. They appreciate the other good things the USA does, but can't not notice the bad things too. Now you see it all, right here, in this post. So there's more of my two cents.
Perhaps someone should send a Declaration of Independence to the Iraqis.
http://myfightfordemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-declaration-of-indep...
between the new US mega-embassy, the military bases and this oil deal there*s not a reason left for any Iraqi to believe that it*s their country any more. The only career choice left for them is insurgent, and the only mission left for the US troops is to protect the oil companies, which is the exact anti-outsourcing that the CIC and Vice wanted. Why should the oil companies have to pay privately to protect their newly stolen assets?
I think that every damned soul in the deepest depths of hell is fearing the day when Cheney arrives and the bottom has to drop out to create a new depth suitable for his sins against humanity. He*s definitely going to stink up the place...
The looting of Irak by the coalition of the willing has begun. The real face of this war finally shows up.
So wrong on so many levels...
Also, anyone who buys this stuff will have it taken back in the next revolution...
I believe the main reason Iraq has been a complete and total disaster is because of *one* reason. These neo-cons wanted a shot at nation building based on their ideology. The saw the German model, they saw the Japanese model, and they saw the south Korean model to name a few. These three nations were built on the foundation of social programs and "liberal" ideals. Well Iraq is the definitive case study in why nice, fuzzy soundng terms like "free market" and "privatization" are simply code for Anarchy and chaos. (The biggest fish wins!) Well congratulations bushco your ideology is a failure and I pity the foolish companies who get involved over there as things stand because with near 100% certainty I'm willing to bet the Iraqi people will eventually hand them their ass on a platter.
Want to fix Iraq? how about getting those 18-25 year old future terrorists a JOB and a FUTURE. How many wars are fought and continue to be fought simply because the population can't put enough food on the table? Ever skip a meal and start feeling cranky? yeah well try skipping meals for 5 years...
Naomi Klein Canadian investigator, journalist(, BCS this issue is censored by MSM in the U.S.)says this is the "worlds largest YARD SALE", meaning Iraqis will virtually own NOTHING.
Iraqi Bank laws that limited Foreign Ownership to 30% (reasonably), will be now 100 % Foreign Owned and small Iraqi banks obviously will not be able to compete with the huge Carnivorous Banks from England and U.S.
Iraqi State loans are controlled by....drum roll...JP MORGAN Chase (Rockefeller's & Loeb), past bank rollers of fascist regimes, starters of wars, and predatory criminals that economically occupy Iraq. In FACT, Naomi Klein says if the U.S. military left Iraq tomorrow, the U.S. would still occupy Iraq economically .
All about OIL, hell no, all state owned industries will be owned eventually by foreigners, from telecoms, water to Agriculture and one of the most despicable acts by U.S. Imperialism and British Imperialism, Iraq the cradle of civilization, starters of first FARMING
in the world, experts on usage of seeds for thousands of years, will gradually be forced to use Monsanto Seeds ( genetically patented ). Meaning Monsanto seeds have shorter shelf life, forcing to re-buy, will genetically alter neighboring farms and plants, and since they have the patent, Iraqis will have to pay Monsanto.
These cold blooded bastards with Brooks Brothers suits, are nothing more than international class criminals, killers of people and cultures , the Rockefeller's to the bush banking family. Vile blood sucking criminals and they will do the same to to every country they enter and this will guarantee continuous resistance to occupation people, the resistance will NEVER END.
When the average Iraqi gets his water bill, he'll owe Bechtel, When he gets his phone bill it could an Israeli cell phone Co. already doing business in Iraq, or ATT. When he enters a bank, that removes it's profits out of the country, it will be owned by Chase or one of the several British carnivorous banks, that will never give a damn about the Iraqi people.
Oh ya, they'll have plenty of reasons to RESIST.
Too bad the really valuable stuff already got sold off during Rumsfeld's watch -- you know, the "cradle of Civilization" antiquities...
EconAtheist @ 50:
Yep, this is the heart of it all. All the corruption, all of the lies, all of the death and destruction. The plan is going nicely. The chimp will hear a voice in his head in September , "the surge is working."
If this puppet government goes through with this farce, it'll have one sure, certain result.
Sometime, probably in the near future, a true Iraqi revolution will take place, and a bunch of truly patriotic Iraqis will rise up and throw out the remnants of the US empire, confiscate all private, foreign holdings for the benefit of Iraqis, and that will be the deserved end of the schemes of the Bush/Cheney/NeoconZionist to annex Iraq.
And what will come after that? Bush may experience 'Rapture' when his head is perched on a pike.
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WTF. This sounds just like Cuba all over again. I can't believe we're doing a policy of economic imperialism.
I thought war profiteering was illegal....oh that's right, illegal to the Bush regime is like don't gas the Jews to the Nazis.
Is the measure of whether the surge is working the International (and US) corporations' bottom lines? Or is it that the people of Iraq are living in a lower level of daily violence, have CLEAN running water, electricity, jobs, stability of their newly formed government, and feeling more secure and hopeful for the future???
What's a million dead Iraqis, as long as we get to drive our SUVs?
Are we beginning to understand what it is like to be the "Good German"?
OIL?
ShimSham @ 64:
It's like one giant snuff film and the neo-cons cannot get enough of it. We are in the presence of true evil. Keep your eyes open......this is not ever yet.
Kahoneez @ 62:
THAT'S A GOOD POST! WON'T SEE THAT IN THE MSM. what monsanto has done to agriculture and is threatening to do is one of the biggest news stories of our time.
but ya don't hear a peep.
This is what the War was all about. Once all these criminals land in Hell, justice would be for them to eternally be boiled in oil! Three quarters of a million people dead, who knows how many wounded, depleted uranium will kill more, lives ruined, so a bunch of mega rich can get richer. Have you had enough!
This is no surprise. Didn't most of us know from the beginning this was just to rape Iraq's resources and make the region open to Western companies.
Kind of reminds me of a Toles cartoon I saw in the Washington Post before the war started. Bush and Cheney are looking at a map of Iraq and Cheney keeps wanting to roll a toy truck onto the map that says "Halliburton" on the side. In the caption Bush tells Cheney, "Not yet Dick." Well we all know Cheney gets what he wants.
History will show this to be the first big move of the resource wars. Cheney and everyone over at PNAC/AEI have been fully aware of the situation for over a decade. Peak oil is a reality, and I'll bet it was the reason for the Energy Task Force, the invasion of Iraq, and why this administration is full of people from the oil industry.
Can't have a fire sale without a fire.
Fucking thieves.
The one smart thing Saddam did was send the most valuable antiquities to the basement of the British Museum in September 2002. Our forces have ruined everything else.
EJ Doyle @ 21:
My thoughts exactly. But you said it first. And better.
It's interesting how corporate actions are so often shadowed by political actions. There are, of course, connections to be made.
It also seems that far too often these circumstances enable one body to work upon and or advance/exploit the weaknesses of the other-much like the host/parisite relationship, or much like the elected/unelected governmental relationship. Black operations are not as opaque as the moniker may suggest if one looks under the blanket of security before laying down to sleep.
The LA Times for once does its job with a report on private contractors in Iraq, who now outnumber U.S. troops. "Security" contractors are the second biggest military force in the coalition.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-private4jul04,0,5808...
"The number of U.S.-paid private contractors in Iraq now exceeds that of American combat troops, newly released figures show, raising fresh questions about the privatization of the war effort and the government's capacity to carry out military and rebuilding campaigns.
More than 180,000 civilians — including Americans, foreigners and Iraqis — are working in Iraq under U.S. contracts, according to State and Defense department figures obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
Including the recent troop buildup, 160,000 soldiers and a few thousand civilian government employees are stationed in Iraq.
The total number of private contractors, far higher than previously reported, shows how heavily the Bush administration has relied on corporations to carry out the occupation of Iraq — a mission criticized as being undermanned."
why is it that when I say that, citing the desperation to privatize- which is fairly old news- i'm asked about my tinfoil hat?
Its' not a sell off its just another way of meeting the Iraqi Constitution for the OIL. Most Americans haven't taken the time to read the Iraq Constitution and the media mentions it under its breath when its slow but what it boils down to is the back way into IRAQ and for CORPORATE America to control it. I really feeel sorry tfor the Iraqis on this one. One more circumvention for Iraq to own anything of its own.with out approval of the american corportaion and if it can produce a profit that also belongs to coporate america.
The pictures of the sprawling, looming nightmarish Iraqi "reconstruction" oil and power station projects rising up to decimate and overwhelm the natural beauty of that ancient and now blood-soaked land tells the whole story:
It's as far from American patriotism as possible.
It's not about American, Afghani or Iraqui lives.
It has nothing whatsoever to do with freedom,
but everything to do with slavery.
It's not about democracy in the least; it's all about the tyranny of entrenched military and energy interests continually raping lands and peoples for ever more profit to the already richest.
It's not about global warming, it intentionally causes global warming to create yet another synthetic "enemy" as a deliberate pretext to theive fundamental human rights and basic freedoms.
It's not about human beings or human values at all, it's about inhuman beings with inhuman values.
The theft of 2 U.S. elections, 9/11, and the death of over 500,000 people are all about Cheney and Bush's lickspittle service to their globalist corporatist racist nazi fascist masters, their insatiable psychopathic greed, and their endlessly arrogant lust for unearned, illegitimate, entirely corrupt and completely unnaceptable power and control over everyone and everything.
According to Juan Cole, who knows his stuff, there is no agreement on the petroleum law. The Kurds haven't seen it and may not support it.
I doubt the Iraqi resistance will let the American invaders enjoy their spoils. More blood and tears upon the horizon, no doubt.
No doubt about that Lupin. And you can be sure that the Iraqis who put their signature on the page have already been pointed out to the insurgents.
Look for the sabotage to increase tenfold.
Edwin @ 3:
USA has been sold and we, the people, are paying the price! - BIG TIME
I'm not saying that the Iraqi's won't do it, but they have been "two weeks" away from this vote since we got into Iraq. Of course they will capitulate sooner or later. We own them. Surely they realize that now and will sign over their birthright to us. Of course they will. But to put it in perspective, this is the same deal that Paul Bremmer (remember him) tried to shove down their throats when he was made the God king over there.
Of course the Iraqi's will hand over their oil. But I'm not laying bets on when. This is just a repeat of a five year old story. Cheney is at work again.
.......and the Iraqi people be damned. Move over 'cause we're takin' over! And Conservatives still can't understand why they hate us.
All Halliburton XOM Blackwater Bush LLC need to do is payoff the 245 members of parliment and then the oil is all ours for 50 years to loot. Of course, it has been Halliburtons solely to loot thus far - is it a surprise that oil production is lacking? I am sure HAL has looted IRAQ's unmetered oil 100 fold compared to anyones best guess. All the prizes of war seem to outweigh all the mayhem, death and destruction we have caused, in the eyes of the corporate profit first GOP of course. They can thank the terrorists for their profits.
The liberals and the rest of world watch in horror and amazement that they got away with the oil grab. Will the world ever forgive us? We have created millions of potential terrorists from our oil grab. With the dollar continuing its collapse, let us never forget what happened to Russia when they spent more than they could afford.
So in other words.....Iraq is basically going to be owned by foreign interests....Reminds you of the United States being owned by China and Japan.
Guess after the Cheney/Bush cartel finally own the Iraqi oil, then it will be off to bombing Iran so that these greedy bastards can stake claim to Iran's oil. Only problem there is that Cheney/Bush are going to have to deal with China first.
L.A. Confidential @ 9:
Yeah... those were the days my friend. Cheap gas and no war with Iraq.
Tom Doff @ 65:
Agree, wholeheartedly. The countries in South America are slowly taking their countries back. Something that was mentioned several months ago was that Chad took back control of their oil fields and Russia is in the process of reclaiming their oil fields.
If we elect Bill Richardson as President in 2008, with the exception of Embassy personnel, all our troops will be coming home from Iraq and our military will not be there to protect the oil fields. Then the Iraqi's can reclaim their country and their assets.
Ah, finally all questions are resolved about just exactly what and and on who's behalf our troops are really fighting dying and being maimed for. Nice tohave those question definitevely answered for the record.
Yes, mission accomplished.
Finally, the reason for the war becomes clear.
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