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U.S. Companies Shut Out as Iraq Auctions Its Oil Fields
Time ^ | December 19, 2009 | Vivienne Walt

Posted on 12/19/2009 1:29:08 PM PST by UAConservative

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Hopefully this will shut up the crazy libs on their "War for oil" rant, but something tells me it won't.
1 posted on 12/19/2009 1:29:10 PM PST by UAConservative
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Russia and China can now send troops to ‘occupy’ their oil fields.

Just heard Iran is claiming one near the border. That region has been in dispute for decades. Iraq want the US to step in and protect them/oil field.

We’ll see if they (Iraq) can step up to the plate.


2 posted on 12/19/2009 1:32:42 PM PST by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: UAConservative

Hopefully this will shut up the crazy libs....... PLEASE MAKE IT SO!!!!!!! I agree it won’t.


3 posted on 12/19/2009 1:34:08 PM PST by ColdOne (ColdOne (Vote them out!))
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>Iraq want the US to step in and protect them/oil field.

Enough. They’re like the clingy girlfriend: you now hate me but you want me to stay. Just arm them so American soldiers can come home.


4 posted on 12/19/2009 1:37:24 PM PST by max americana (i)
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To: UAConservative

maybe there is a valuable lesson here....


5 posted on 12/19/2009 1:37:24 PM PST by thinking
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We can basically blame the left for this. Bush could have demanded that Iraq pay for all that expensive infrastructure with their oil revenues. But then the left would have come down on him like a ton of bricks.

If this writer thinks this will embarrass the left for even a nanosecond, then she’s smoking something. “No blood for oil” worked nicely as a propaganda play. Now it’s use is past, and they’ve moved on to other things, like “free health care for illegals,” or “Climate change is an established fact.”

Will climate change prove to be false, too? Who cares, after they’ve pushed cap & trade through, closed all the coal mines, blocked nuclear power, doubled our heating costs, and left us all freezing in the dark?


6 posted on 12/19/2009 1:37:59 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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How much oil did we steal? How much more profits did the Big 6 oil companies make with Iraqi oil off the market? The military-industrial complex did not care about the oil, only about the budget. And the owners of the Federal Reserve love that growing debt. The financial oligarchy benefited from the illegal war and America suffers because of the biggest failure of diplomacy ever in pursuit of the biggest foreign policy blunder ever, although Obomem is up there with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Just why all of a sudden is war not a racket?

War is a Racket by Smedley Butler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3_EXqJ8f-0

http://www.infowars.com/smedley-butler-war-is-a-racket/


7 posted on 12/19/2009 1:38:13 PM PST by poodle (We are slaves to the corporations and the government is the overseer.)
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To: UAConservative

How much oil did we steal? How much more profits did the Big 6 oil companies make with Iraqi oil off the market? The military-industrial complex did not care about the oil, only about the budget. And the owners of the Federal Reserve love that growing debt. The financial oligarchy benefited from the illegal war and America suffers because of the biggest failure of diplomacy ever in pursuit of the biggest foreign policy blunder ever, although Obomem is up there with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Just why all of a sudden is war not a racket?

War is a Racket by Smedley Butler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3_EXqJ8f-0

http://www.infowars.com/smedley-butler-war-is-a-racket/


8 posted on 12/19/2009 1:38:23 PM PST by poodle (We are slaves to the corporations and the government is the overseer.)
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How does this pay for the war?


9 posted on 12/19/2009 1:41:03 PM PST by stuartcr (If we are truly made in the image of God, why do we have faults?)
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Iraq Auctions Its Oil Fields...

Its just as well. Now, if Iraq were to auction fields of windmills and solar panels, we'd vie for drilling those.

10 posted on 12/19/2009 1:43:09 PM PST by C210N (A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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Of course it won’t matter.


11 posted on 12/19/2009 1:43:19 PM PST by GeronL
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Yup, power of propaganda. This is one of the tools that powered BO to the big white house. Now we have the stupids dictating American policy based on falsehoods.

Worst part is the circus’ head office is controlled by a marxist muslim.

We are near the height of insanity and, unfortunately America will pay.

Pay big and in every way. Possibly pay till death.


12 posted on 12/19/2009 1:49:30 PM PST by himno hero
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US helicopters hovering above? What the hell? Do the Chinese and Russians have Obama’s birth certificate or other damaging material on him?


13 posted on 12/19/2009 1:50:55 PM PST by Irisshlass
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Who are “the big six” oil companies?


14 posted on 12/19/2009 1:59:01 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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We can basically blame the left for this. Bush could have demanded that Iraq pay for all that expensive infrastructure with their oil revenues. But then the left would have come down on him like a ton of bricks.

Sorry, that's not enough to claim "Bush could have..." That he didn't shows how weak a leader he was. If that's what he believed then he should have put it out there and let the left show their colors.

15 posted on 12/19/2009 1:59:14 PM PST by raybbr (If you try to kiss your son on the head while he's running you WILL get a fat lip.)
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To this day I still say both Bush’s screwed up. Not a single American boot should ever have been on Afghan or Iraqi ground. That is until the glass cooled off, hardened and the radioactivity dissipated. No American should ever have died in those lands in combat to accomplish what we could have done with the push of a button. Had we used the nuclear option back then how brazen would Iran be now?


16 posted on 12/19/2009 2:00:15 PM PST by Rudolphus (Tagline? I don't need no steenkin' tagline.)
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Furthermore, how brazen would China, North-Korea and Russia be now. Sometimes you have to let em know not to F#$% with the USA or you will get much worse than a bloody nose.


17 posted on 12/19/2009 2:02:17 PM PST by Rudolphus (Tagline? I don't need no steenkin' tagline.)
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How much oil did we steal? How much more profits did the Big 6 oil companies make with Iraqi oil off the market?

As a member of the VRWC, I'm afraid that I can't provide you with the answers to these questions due to a strict confedentiality pledge. But I do grant you permission to visit the DU and speculate with your friends there.

18 posted on 12/19/2009 2:18:08 PM PST by death2tyrants
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To: UAConservative

Why would a US company want to invest in oil when you will be taxed into oblivion by the Democrats?


19 posted on 12/19/2009 2:23:40 PM PST by Brilliant
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drill baby drill, right here...and eff the rest of them.


20 posted on 12/19/2009 2:49:33 PM PST by SueRae
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