Which major oil companies?
With the taxpayer on the line for $250 Billion plus interest, just how much will the "major oil companies" be paying of that debt?
Do you think only the Iraqis will be profiting from their oil for the next generation?
No, of course not. There are a number of "foreign investors" who stand to create generational wealth by controlling a share of the profits from the iraqi oil fields. Perhaps WE THE PEOPLE should be paid back OUR investment first.
[With the taxpayer on the line for $250 Billion plus interest, just how much will the "major oil companies" be paying of that debt?]
Point taken, but how does that differ from the DU or KOS line? Until this evening, I thought this was the leftist point of view.
A nuke attack on an American city would cost us $1Trillion per nuke.
I choose to see the trickle down effect. The 200,000 Americans who have new jobs because of the Iraq War pay taxes. Geopolitically, the USA just grabbed the center of the world's chessboard. The Saudis would have abandoned the USA if the USA hadn't not taken out Saddam. By taking the resources, you suddenly have more friends and not less friends. The USA is much stronger in relationships with Europeans and Russians and Chinese now that Iraq is clearly going to be free and pro-American (assuming we guarantee this by doing the same in Iran). The geopolitical, and thus financial, advantages of that are priceless.
Plus, 9-11 cost the nation $100 Billion in the month of September 2001 alone. An Iran action will probably get us another 9-11 and an additional $200 Billion cost from that possible as well.
But the geopolitical advantage of a free pro-American Iraq and a pro-American free Iran will be worth much more.
Too many here are pretending that Iran is not our enemy in Iraq.
Too many FReeper types agreed with the leftists about Vietnam as well and still do. They didn't see how China wasn't going to flip and get capitalistic if we just allowed them to take Indonesian oil and most of Asia. They didn't see and still don't see that Nixon's detente with China was the result of the American public standing behind Nixon in the 1972 election polls (the Chinese predicted the Nixon win based on the polls) which showed heavy backing for the continued American presence in Vietnam until victory (over China) was achieved.
[There are a number of "foreign investors" who stand to create generational wealth by controlling a share of the profits from the iraqi oil fields.]
We do have to bribe our allies to be with us and not compete with us by supporting terrorists.
Meanwhile, this could be a problem to deal with creatively:
Russia has really profited from the turmoil in the Middle East which raised oil prices. An Iranian revolution and the outbreak of peace that results from the Iraqi insurgency and Syria no longer having any funding...would cause oil prices to drop and end the gravy train for Russia.