If Iraq was about oil, then why is there not oil tankers from haliburton lined up in the Gulf?

Answer 1

This could be explained to you and people like you a thousand times from Sunday and you still wouldnt listen so I will not bother now. You are however wrong. It is not about getting the oil currently, it is about maintaining future oil supplies in 20 to 30 years.

Answer 2

Haliburton gave up the contracting to other "friendly" companies. I cannot remember their names now, but read between the lines in the news. It's there. The oil tankers are there.

Answer 3

The Bush administration's ties to oil and gas are as deep as an offshore well. President George W. Bush's family has been running oil companies since 1950. Vice President Dick Cheney spent the late '90s as CEO of Halliburton, the world's largest oil services company. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice sat on the board of Chevron, which graced a tanker with her name. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans was the CEO of Tom Brown Inc. -- a natural gas company with fields in Texas, Colorado and Wyoming -- for more than a decade.

The links don't end with personnel. The bin Laden family and other members of Saudi Arabia's oil-wealthy elite have contributed mightily to several Bush family ventures, even as the American energy industry helped put Bush in office. Of the top 10 lifetime contributors to George W.'s war chests, six either come from the oil business or have ties to it, according the Center for Public Integrity.

Answer 4

A lot of people that gave contributions to George Bush have made a lot of money from this war, period. As far as the "oil tankers lined up at the Gulf", not sure exactly what you're talking about there, but something tells me that you're not either.....

Answer 5

Because George Bush has a pipeline that runs under the Atlantic Ocean all the way to his front yard, where he sells it to Dick Cheney.

Seriously, if everyone says we are in Iraq for oil, we might as well get it free! Lets just drain all of Iraq's oil and use it, I'll bet we can get gas down to $0.50 a gallon again!

Answer 6

I believe the theory goes that as long as we are in Iraq, Saudi Arabia is making a lot more money... and seeing as how the US is buddy buddy with them and they own a substantial part of the US, we are letting them reap the rewards.... now i haven't looked into any of this, and as such i don't have an opinion on the issue yet... and seeing as how my dislike with the Iraqi War stems from issues prior to this in the line of importance, i doubt i will look into it.

Answer 7

Because the "Philadelphia Experiment" was real and Haliburton's tankers are invisible.

All part of the conspiracy my man

Answer 8

Within weeks of the first inaugural, prominent Iraqi expatriates -- many with ties to U.S. industry -- were invited to secret discussions directed by Pamela Quanrud, National Security Council, now at the State Department. "It quickly became an oil group," said one participant, Falah Aljibury. Aljibury is an advisor to Amerada Hess' oil trading arm and Goldman Sachs.

"The petroleum industry, the chemical industry, the banking industry -- they'd hoped that Iraq would go for a revolution like in the past and government was shut down for two or three days," Aljibury told me. On this plan, Hussein would simply have been replaced by some former Baathist general.

However, by February 2003, a hundred-page blue-print for the occupied nation, favored by neo-cons, had been enshrined as official policy. "Moving the Iraqi Economy from Recovery to Sustainable Growth" generally embodied the principles for postwar Iraq favored by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and the Iran-Contra figure, now Deputy National Security Advisor, Elliott Abrams. The blue-print mapped out a radical makeover of Iraq as a free-maket Xanadu including, on page 73, the sell-off of the nation's crown jewels: "privatization [of] the oil and supporting industries."

It was reasoned that if Iraq's fields were broken up and sold off, competing operators would crank up production. This extra crude would flood world petroleum markets, OPEC would devolve into mass cheating and overproduction, oil prices would fall over a cliff, and Saudi Arabia, both economically and politically, would fall to its knees.

However, in plotting the destruction of OPEC, the neocons failed to predict the virulent resistance of insurgent forces: the U.S. oil industry itself. Rob McKee, a former executive vice-president of ConocoPhillips, designated by the Bush Administration to advise the Iraqi oil ministry, had little tolerance for the neocons' threat to privatize the oil fields nor their obsession on ways to undermine OPEC. (In 2004, with oil approaching the $50 a barrel mark all year, the major U.S. oil companies posted record or near-record profits. ConocoPhillips this February reported a doubling of its quarterly profits.)

In November 2003, McKee quietly ordered up a new plan for Iraq's oil. For months, the State Department officially denied the existence of this 323-page plan, but when I threatened legal action, I was able to obtain the multi-volume document describing seven possible models of oil production for Iraq, each one merely a different flavor of a single option: a state-owned oil company under which the state maintains official title to the reserves but operation and control are given to foreign oil companies.

According to Ed Morse, another Hess Oil advisor, the switch to an OPEC-friendly policy for Iraq was driven by Dick Cheney. "The VP's office [has] not pursued a policy in Iraq that would lead to a rapid opening of the Iraqi energy sector that would put us on a track to say, "We're going to put a squeeze on
OPEC."

Cheney, far from "putting the squeeze on OPEC," has taken a defacto seat there, allowing the cartel to maintain its suffocating grip on the U.S. economy.

Answer 9

I am am pretty sure Halliburton doesn't own any oil tankers as they are not a shipping company.

Answer 10

cause the first war was about oil the second war was to get even for sadam punking us the last 8 years before the seocond war started.