US Eyes Iraq Oil: Blix

IslamOnline.net & ABC Radio National ^ | Wed. Nov. 7, 2007 | staff

[gandalftb]

SYDNEY — Former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix, here to receive the Sydney Peace Prize, believes the US plans to stay long in Iraq to guarantee the flow of oil supplies and to keep a close eye on neighboring Iran.

"One fear I would have is that the US has a hidden thought to remain in Iraq," Blix told the Australian radio.

"One reason why they wanted in was that they felt they must leave Saudi Arabia. After the Gulf War in 1991, they left their troops in Saudi Arabia to protect pipelines,". "And when they felt they could no longer stay in Saudi Arabia, Iraq was the next best place because it was more secularized than Saudi Arabia and had the second biggest oil reserves in the region."

Blix has said that the West's neo-colonial approach in dealing with Iran is humiliating and unfruitful, insisting Tehran should be given reasonable incentives to halt its nuclear program.

Blix, who led UN weapons inspection in Iraq before the 2003 invasion, described the Iraq war as a disaster.

"The aims of the war were, first of all, to eliminate weapons of mass destruction that did not exist; secondly, to establish a democracy -- and what they ended up with was anarchy; and thirdly, they wanted to weed out Al-Qaeda, which were not there but which came there," he told The Australian newspaper.

"What it goes to show is that although tyranny is horrible, anarchy can be even worse than tyranny."

[Allegra]

"One fear I would have is that the US has a hidden thought to remain in Iraq," Blix told the Australian radio.

Nothing "hidden" about it,"Hans Brix."

[whatexit]

If it was war for oil, wouldn’t we have invaded Anwar?

[Allegra]

This sounds good to me. We should take some of the oil from Iraq for ourselves and then bomb Iran.

And then take some of Iran's oil, too.

A lot of it.

[angcat]

Hello Allegra!

Hope all is safe and well with you.

[gandalftb]

Thanks, help me a little, is this what we’re importing into the US and the countries of origin? Explain crude oil vs. total imports?

[AppyPappy]

Oh yeah. If we ever get to invade Iraq, we will steal all of their oil.

[stratboy]

"Greetings from a kinder, gentler Iraq. God bless US and Coalition Forces."

Thank you for your service, stay safe.

[ZULU]

Well, Hans, the next time you have to warm your house, maybe you can use the bullcrap the throw around instead of oil. And I trust your horse is in good shape to get you around instead of your car. And all those plastics you use in various products....

Hans, go take a long walk off a short pier.

[sappy]

I would have supported that too. Or off California.

[brownsfan]

What happened to covert CIA operations?
This guy should be “silenced”.

[Allegra]

Hi angcat!

Things are getting much better here.

Much to the media and Democrats' (but then, I repeat myself) dismay. ;-)

[Yo-Yo]

"One reason why they wanted in was that they felt they must leave Saudi Arabia. After the Gulf War in 1991, they left their troops in Saudi Arabia to protect pipelines,". "And when they felt they could no longer stay in Saudi Arabia, Iraq was the next best place because it was more secularized than Saudi Arabia and had the second biggest oil reserves in the region."

To paraphrase Gen. Burkhalter from Hogan's Heroes: "Blix, you eeeediot!"

After the first Gulf War, we didn't leave troops in Saudi Arabia, we left Aircrews. We flew combat air patrols from Saudi Arabia enforcing the northern and southern "no-fly" zones in Iraq for 12 years.

[Blind Eye Jones]

I think that anybody up for any peace award has to 1. condemn Bush 2. ignore Saddam or at least say that the rape rooms, torture and gassing whole populations is nothing in comparison to Bush (I mean, look at Bush’s shifty eyes it says it all!) 3. really want one so badly that there is no ass they won’t kiss, no abject level of humiliation, self-loathing & denial they won't stoop to, on their way to the top of the shit heap. And I’m being extremely kind.

[Capt. Tom]

Thanks, help me a little, is this what we’re importing into the US and the countries of origin? Explain crude oil vs. total imports?

We have oil refineries in this country. We refine our own oil and also imported crude oil from other countries that are on that list.

Our demand is greater than we can refine so to meet demand, we import more already refined products like diesel, gasoline etc that has been refined in other countries.

Iran has the opposite problem. In a bizzare situation, Iran exports crude oil and doesn't have the refineries to convert it to gasoline, so Iran imports gasoline from other countries. - tom

[roses of sharon]

More evidence that Blix was in bed with Saddam and Sons.

[LibLieSlayer]

blix is one reason the World is so e’ffed up!

LLS

[Badeye]

Ballroom Blix was a joke long ago, and his comments just underscore it one more time here.

[quadrant]

How foolish. What does Blix think we intend to do with Iraqi oil? Sit on top of the fields and sell it to whom we please? Ship it to the US? Give it away?

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

One fear I would have is that the US has a hidden thought to remain in Iraq,” Blix told the Australian radio.
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Why is it a fear, it is securing our interest. I see no problem with it. We didn’t spend all these billions of dollars to leave it unsecure after all aren’t we there for the oil.

[lepton]

The headline is meant (in my view) to raise an inference that the US means to TAKE the oil. All that Blix said is that the US may stay (longer) to ensure the oil’s free-market flow. That’s a huge difference from “eyeing the oil [covetously, hoping to grab it for ourselves].”

Yup.

It's like stopping the local gang from taking over the grocery store. Somehow the left (and some of the right) have decided that that is somehow immoral.