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By: Grant in Texas

Grant in Texas — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:24:51 +0000

A lot of Iraq in oil seems to be stolen…

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1622785,00.html

In the run-up to the Iraq invasion, then Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz assured Congress that Iraqi oil would pay for the country’s occupation and reconstruction. If the Iraqi oil traders are right, it’s one more thing we need to add to the long list Wolfowitz and his neo-con friends in the Administration got wrong: that Iraq’s oil would pay for Iraq’ s repairing the Bush destruction of their nation.

By: Grant in Texas

Grant in Texas — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:35:29 +0000

Iraq has the world’s third largest reserves of oil. However due to the years of war and sabotage, that nation hasn’t been able to come close to realizing much production. With Bush/Cheney thinking the war would be WON in only a few months….the “cakewalk!”, they figured their friends in the oil industry would soon be there taking advantage of the “spoils of war”. However, the Iraqi government hasn’t given the green light much to foreigners except for an oil deal with China last year.

By: Clif

Clif — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:24:32 +0000

First you said we went after the oil then you said we didn’t get anything from Iraq. Which is it? Can’t be both.

Yes it can, shit for brains, cause the republicunts fuck up everything they try,

The idiot reich-wing neo-con republicunts went after the oil and as usual FAILED but they did get over 4000 Americans killed in the process.

Jesus fucking Christ, you are stupid.

By: kayinmaine

kayinmaine — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:23:01 +0000

Remember when George Bush told the nation that if we invaded Iraq oil/gas prices would go down and then the Iraqis would rebuild their nation using their own oil revenues? ANOTHER LIE! None of it happened. Americans paid record prices for oil & gas and WE PAID FOR IRAQ’S RECONSTRUCTION. What did Georgie do when Iraq announced it has billions in the bank? Nothing!

By: kayinmaine

kayinmaine — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:19:34 +0000

Did Americans get the oil? Nope! We paid record prices. Iraq? 19 cents a gallon.

By: trashman

trashman — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:15:26 +0000

First you said we went after the oil then you said we didn’t get anything from Iraq. Which is it? Can’t be both.

By: kayinmaine

kayinmaine — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:36:36 +0000

On 9/11/01, Colin Powell SAID GEORGE BUSH WAS FOCUSED ON SADDAM HUSSEIN and had to rein him in because he said the American people would never believe the attack was perpetrated by Saddam Hussein/Iraq.

Even John McCain was blaming Iraq…

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/11/mccain-iraq-911/

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:42:57 +0000

And US Oil companies have gotten how many contracts in Iraq? For every year since 1998 only 5% of our total imported crude oil has come from Iraq. So if we did this for the oil companies, why hasn’t percentage of imports risen?

Please find the quote where Bush said Iraq was behind 9/11. You can’t because it doesn’t exist.

Every intelligence agency in the world believed Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. The belief was Saddam would give a nuclear bomb to the terrorists.

I agree with you, we should have never gone into Iraq. The arguments you present of why we removed Saddam from power just don’t hold water.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:26:51 +0000

It’s interesting to see how Obama’s timeframe is similar to Bush’s. He is making the right choice.

Whether we should or shouldn’t be there doesn’t matter at this point; the exit strategy is what is most important.

Ryan