Today's Charade Is Simply About Iraq's Oil (GAG ALERT)

Toronto Star ^ | January 30, 2005 | Linda McQuaig

[popdonnelly]

This woman doesn't know what she's talking about. Ergo, she must be a leftist. She certainly sings the leftist line. What crap. These people have nothing to tell any of us.

[TheDon]

No votes for oil!!! < /sarcasm > LOL!

[demnomo]

I thought Canada (ie: the CBC/Ottawa Lefties) was fighting to keep FNC from airing.

Gracious, the folks up North are in desperate need of another news network to counterbalance the hate-America, Marxist propaganda that continually spews forth from the CBC. CBC is far worse than the BBC and Al Jazeera combined in its obvious anti-USA bias, IMHO.

[goldstategop]

One can say the Left is nothing if not consistent in its hatred of President Bush and its disdain for freedom. The greatest opposition to holding free elections in Iraq was expressed, in of all places, not in Iraq itself but in such advanced democratic countries such as Spain and the U.K! How come no one asks if democracy is a charade in parts of the West? The difference is we take freedom for granted; the Iraqi people with their recent experience under a totalitarian dictatorship, didn't. No, its not about oil and Haliburton and for once we could stand to learn from Iraqis about what its like to have your vote finally matter.

Denny Crane: "I want two things. First God and then Fox News."

[stinkerpot65]

Linda McQuaig

Anyone this butt-ugly should be full of hate.

Arf!

[srm913]

Man, she could take on Helen Thomas!

[hermgem]

Good Linda forgot to tell us that Hussein's Iraq was for oil, but it was to be French, Russian, German, Chinese oil interests.
This protection racket controlled the U.N. voting machine.
All those participated had contracts for oil exploration, huge credits, and gained contractual exploration ownerships of Iraqi territories.
French leadership brought about Hussein's tolerance and continuation of slaughters and massacres of Iraqi people.
Aren't Canadians close cousins of these French exploiters?
Linda kept on crying into darkness and now discovers light and hope shining bright into Iraqi's future.
Just wait and see how these UN weasels show up to present claims signed by Hussein.

[popdonnelly]

Really stylish. Sort of "contemporary homeless person".

[cwb]

Yeah...I thought the Canadians had a big piece of these oil contracts through their French cousins. These people are all hypocrites.

[FastCoyote]

Dear Linda:
We will have spent $200 billion on Iraq by the end of this year. This could have bought at least 200 billion gallons of oil wholesale, but we have yet to see bumkiss of that oil. Were we stupid? Or motivated by a higher cause? The numbers speak for themselves.

[carlr]

The funny thing about these leftist puke factories is that they never research their material.From years of never being challenged on their statements.
So just one question to her.
Hey stupid with gas back to around $2.00 a gallon,where is all the frickin oil we went there after?

[mercy]

Its more like a charade within a charade. I don't give a rat's patoot about iraq or any other Arab state or any Arab. It IS about the oil. So what? Being about the oil is like being about the very air we breathe.

If Africa had oil we'd be in there solving their problems. They don't have any oil and so we don't really give a good GD about Africa.

Islam holds the power to throw the civilized world into chaos. They only need to shut down a few hundred wells and blow a dozen or so pipe lines ... disable the Suez canal. Iraq is just a good starting point to remake the face of Central Asia.

[bilhosty]

"We will have spent $200 billion on Iraq by the end of this year"

Considering that Iraq oil has never been worth more than 30 billion dollars a year, it would be ridiculous for us to spend 200 billion to get it. Certainly when you consider that the US is 10.5 trillion dollar economy. The Oil of Iraq is only equal to 3 tenths of 1% of our economy.
Would anybody really go to the trouble we did just to get oil reserves worth 3 tenths of their economy? We need to know these statistics because they disprove slime liars like this crazy woman.

[bilhosty]

"They thought it would be easy--remember? Cheney said we'd be greeted as liberators. They thought reconstruction would pay for itself."

But they still originally budgeted 90 billion and I don't remember anyone saying it would pay for itself. Oh, by the way I just looked up the Iraqi oil reserves and they are about 1/2 of what you say they are. Also the price of Oil at 50 dollars is a very high historical price and surely the average price would not remain any where near that level for the future. Even now it is down according to the futures prices at about 42 dollars per barrel which is also a high price.

If the United States were just interested ed in oil why did it play a role in embargoing it in the first place. Usually the same people who are now accusing the US of going after Iraqi oil, also accuse the oil companies of creating artificial shortages when they get this high. I wish they would make up their mind which it is. I also wish they would show us some evidence to back themselves up. Just saying these things does not prove anything.

[Raycpa]

It's been about getting control of Iraq's vast, virtually untouched oil reserves, and extending Washington's military reach over the region.

Actually, I agree with this. In fact the control over the region is more important. We are changing the balance of power away from the Saudi's who last I looked had the most men on the planes.

[GVnana]

I guess they call this journalism in Canada. Sorry Canada.