If you owned an oil well, would you share its revenue with someone who killed your father while stealing it?

Question

If you answer "yes", I say, "Welcome back, Jesus"!

If you say "no", why should anyone expect Shi'ites to share revenue with Sunnis?

Corollary: Bush is pretending to be an incarnation of Christ!

Mr. Peanut & Mission - The question is serious enough (people dying, etc.) to get a serious answer. Do you have one or do you surrender to a higher intelligence?

rukiddin - What? Can't answer a simple question?

mahal - Waiting fo Shi'ites to share oil revenue with Sunnis is the purpose of the "surge"., which costs blood and treasure. In your mind(?), does anything have anything to do with that?

Gabriel Archangel
1) If I grant your premise that paying blackmail to the Sunnis will bring peace, then what happens to the rule of law? Should we all surrender to terrorism? You should propose your remedy to Rudy Giuliani. See what he says.

2) Your premise is ridiculous. All of the oil wells are in Kurdistan or around Basra, where you can't find any Sunnis, unless they are being tortured in a dungeon. The only fighting around Basra is between Shi'ite factions greedy for the money. Kurdistan is doing just fine, thank you.

Your rant is the result of getting too much conservative crap from talk radio. Try to read main stream media. The words are longer, but you can borrow a dictionary.

Waiting for "reconciliation" is a scam. It will never come, but Bush gets to play with his toy soldiers in the War Room. If he can pass the war on to the next guy, he can blame the final result on somebody else.

Too bad that half of all voters have below-average intelligence.

Big J
1) Never believe your own propaganda. Your "extremist" Shi'ites around Basra are killing each other over control of the oil wealth. They are as materialist as any Protestant on Wall Street. There are Muslim chemical engineers who think about pumping oil all day and half of the night.
2) You did not answer the question. Do we stay in Iraq until the Shi'ites share oil revenue with the Sunnis? Forever? Or is this a con game where the Shi'ites collect arms and money from us as long as we have some and Bush gets to play with his toy soldiers in the War Room until 2008?
3) I'm not looking for fair play. I'm looking for rational behavior from the US voter. Why is it so difficult to smell a con game?

Big J
1) Never believe your own propaganda. Your "extremist" Shi'ites around Basra are killing each other over control of the oil wealth. They are as materialist as any Protestant on Wall Street. There are Muslim chemical engineers who think about pumping oil all day and half of the night.
2) You did not answer the question. Do we stay in Iraq until the Shi'ites share oil revenue with the Sunnis? Forever? Or is this a con game where the Shi'ites collect arms and money from us as long as we have some and Bush gets to play with his toy soldiers in the War Room until 2008?
3) I'm not looking for fair play. I'm looking for rational behavior from the US voter. Why is it so difficult to smell a con game?

Big J
1) Never believe your own propaganda. Your "extremist" Shi'ites around Basra are killing each other over control of the oil wealth. They are as materialist as any Protestant on Wall Street. There are Muslim chemical engineers who think about pumping oil all day and half of the night.
2) You did not answer the question. Do we stay in Iraq until the Shi'ites share oil revenue with the Sunnis? Forever? Or is this a con game where the Shi'ites collect arms and money from us as long as we have some and Bush gets to play with his toy soldiers in the War Room until 2008?
3) I'm not looking for fair play. I'm looking for rational behavior from the US voter. Why is it so difficult to smell a con game?

Answer 1

History is full of examples of the strong or ruthless cheating or subduing the weak and peaceful.---If you're looking for fair play, you're searching in the wrong world.
Why would you think that a bunch of religious extremists would take time out from praying 5 times a day to pump oil and maintain the wells?
These people have 99% of their being floating around in their heaven, and one big toe remaining in reality.
If you're rooting for these guys to win, you better start weaving yourself a prayer rug to take to your local mosque.

Answer 2

The real question is "Would you rather have a 33% interest in a very productive oil well delivering hundreds of barrells of oil per day and making you at least $50,000 ( who knows how many denares that is but I am sure it is more than they make in 30 years now) enabling you to put a roof over your families head, feed them, cloth them, educate them, and be confident that you would have the same number of live children in the pm and you had in the am OR WOULD YOU RATHER own 100% of a oil well field system that is woefully unable to produce oil due to sabotage, unrepairable and unusable equipment, that will most definitely insure you will make the same amount of money next year as you have for the last 20 years, thus insuring that you do not have adequate food, clothing or housing for your family? Your children are in danger as are you and your wife each day of dying not only from your own religious people but by foreign Islamic radicals or even American soldiers who in the heat of battle thought you were those radical insurgents. Which PATH WOULD YOU TAKE. EVEN IF YOUR GRANDFATHER WAS KILLED BY A SUNNI AND YOU ARE SHITE! WOULD YOU TAKE THE PATHE TO A MORE CIVILIZED LIFE, on where you can let your children play outside and go down that PATH and not stemp on an IED? Or would you choose to keep living in the cesspool of life that you have the last 20 years. ONLY A MORON WOULD CHOOSE THE PATH WITH THE INSANE KILLERS AT EVERY CORONER, IEDs ON EVERY BLOCK AND A FOREIGN ISLAMIC FIGHTER WITH THE SAME SUNNI OR SHITE FAITH AS YOU THAT WILL KILL YOU JUST TO GET YOU BUDDIES TO RETALIATE! I've got no sympathy and not an ounce of compassion to the man choosing the wrong path here. Even an animal has enough sense to know which road to go down.

Answer 3

Bush does seem to have a messianic complex. He's opened up a can of worms that will keep causing trouble throughout the 21st Century.

It's amazing how the Neocons could come up with so many complex and grandiose plans without thinking any of them through.

Answer 4

Oh....Thanks for explaining that "Bush is pretending to be an incarnation of Christ." I wouldn't have gotten that from the rest of your rant. Now, go take your meds and go back to your liberal websites.

Answer 5

They really need to start taking out the mullahs there. All of 'em.

Answer 6

If someone killed my dad, I'd work until they were brought to justice. (If my dad deserved to be killed, I'd do nothing.)

Revenues from the oil well have nothing to do with it.

Answer 7

i wouldn't sell it in USA if democrats want to tax it

Answer 8

BEAUTIFULLY put. Enjoy your star.