Please read from the link before you reply.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A21297-2003Jun22?language=printer
2006-12-02 08:17:35 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Follow-up.
The American Taxpayer has footed a $300,000,000,000 tax bill so far for this invasion. How long will it take the Iraq's to pay us back and then reap the benefits for themselves?
2006-12-02 09:06:57 · update #1
Follow-up.
The American Taxpayer has footed a $300,000,000,000 tax bill so far for this invasion. How long will it take the Iraq's to pay us back and then reap the benefits for themselves?
2006-12-02 09:07:15 · update #2
Wolfie - your wrote
"Where were you (and did you honestly care) when roughly 30,000 Sunni's were gassed to death in southern Iraq by Saddam?"
That happened in 1982. Don't recall any U.S president taking so much except. Besides, we invaded Iraq because they had WMD's and were a threat to us.right. Or at least that was the official "original" reason given in front of the U.N
http://italy.indymedia.org/print.php?id=182488
This was taken in 1984. Please explain.
2006-12-02 09:23:00 · update #3
Adam-
"control of oil... so when do our gas prices get cheaper?".......lol so cute!
Who cares about YOU? Oil company profits are through the roof. Please grow up.
2006-12-02 09:26:25 · update #4
bob h
Have you gotten your numbers straight yet?
2006-12-02 23:46:53 · update #5
Money
2006-12-02 08:18:59 · answer #1 · answered by paulisfree2004 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
I beg to differ with the premise that we went to Iraq to control their oil and I think I can prove this was not a motivational factor, I think we went to Iraq to cause more turmoil in the middle east as it has done. You see when there is even a hint that there will be an oil shortage it gives the oil company's the excuse to raise the price of it and that also drives profits through the roof. If you remember Bush called the heads of the big oil company's in for a meeting to set energy policy and I think this was a result. I think all you would have to do is follow the money back to Bush, Cheney and company to prove this was the real reason for starting a war in the middle east.
2006-12-03 10:46:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were all good ideas at the time. Note this was in 2003. Many things have changed since then. Iraq's oil fields still burn endlessly. We just don't hear about them. And we haven't taken control of Iraq's oil. We are there. But the Iraqis are not stupid. Why do you think that nearly the entire Middle East now wants Nukes? (and probably are well on their way to obtaining them?) They see Israel with a stockpile. The US has a stockpile. Middle Easterners are aware of what the U.S. wants and needs. They will not sit back complacently while the US pilfers their oil. That includes Iraqis.
We are such a powerful country. So infuential. We were a leader, until Iraq. Now we are hated. The Iraqis would well have welcomed us had we not been so hellbent to "take over" -my guess is that the Iraqis would have gladly turned over at least of their oil interests to the United States after the fall of Saddam. If only we had planned better. Now they want us gone. They want a final good-bye.
If only....
2006-12-02 16:21:06 · answer #3 · answered by rare2findd 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
to stop the real terrorists from getting control over it. I know you think that is us but you will see very soon.
and try to read the whole article when you are using it to support a lie. try this part...
Thamir Ghadban, Iraq's acting oil minister, said he hoped oil production would reach 1.5 million barrels a day by the end of the summer. The resumption of production was hampered by the looting and sabotage of production facilities, he said. On Saturday, alleged saboteurs set off an explosion that cut a large natural gas pipeline west of Baghdad.
Bremer said he expected Iraq to sell about $5 billion worth of oil by the end of the year. After commissions and payments to a reparations fund to compensate Kuwait for the Iraqi invasion in 1990, he said Iraq would likely receive $3.5 billion, which would be deposited in a fund to pay for development projects.
2006-12-02 16:24:24 · answer #4 · answered by CaptainObvious 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, it looks like the Iraqi people will be getting most of the dividends...Kuwait will get reparations. I think I missed the part where we took control of their oil...as far as I read they still have a minister of oil in charge.
Of course, I understand the question. The Bush clan is as far into oil as any middle-eastern tyrant, and it is amazing how oil prices fluctuate to fit the political agendas in the US...
Who the heck knows...we've been lied to many times this whole debacle is just too strange to be what we are told.
2006-12-02 16:27:05 · answer #5 · answered by silverback487 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, you grow up. You took a reasonably accurate news account & twisted it beyond all recognition. You are being extremely rude to people considerate enough to give you an honest opinion. Your original question was not (reportable), an editorial (reportable), & your whole attitude is abusive (reportable enough to get you kicked off the site, permanently)
You have no clue how many liberals you have insulted, how many moderates, how many people who have totally tuned you out. You hurt your own cause immensely, and you have no clue, dummy.
I almost forgot. you care about nobody at all except yourself.
FYI, I am a liberal moderate. Quit hurting the cause. SHUT UP
2006-12-03 06:10:37 · answer #6 · answered by bob h 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well it IS all about oil because Dumbya is quoted on the record saying so when his handlers didn't shut him up and he strayed from the Party line. The ironic thing is that Dumbya is SUCH a screw up that he can't even be a successful thief.
2006-12-02 16:42:53 · answer #7 · answered by rhino9joe 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Say what you will.....
I'll ask one back at you....
Where were you (and did you honestly care) when roughly 30,000 Sunni's were gassed to death in southern Iraq by Saddam?
We are STILL finding the corpses he buried in make-shift graves ALL OVER IRAQ. Come over here, and I'll show you a few of the sites personally. You can talk to my Iraqi friends and they'll set you straight..... you're a lemming....
2006-12-02 16:27:51 · answer #8 · answered by wolf560 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
They are discussing ways the Iraqi people could benefit from the profits.I suggest that YOU read it.
2006-12-02 16:24:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Boring without world events on going. Truth is America doesn't perform well economically without war.
2006-12-02 16:23:59 · answer #10 · answered by edubya 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
We have done neither. Who reads the Washington Post?
2006-12-02 16:32:17 · answer #11 · answered by mamadixie 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋