[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.