You are totally off base with your “free market” analysis. American lives and treasure have been spent in Iraq. This is our down payment. In return US oil companies get first consideration and some negotiated oil development contracts that are not put out to bid. After US oil companies get some nice deals then put the rest out to bid
This is how it should have been done
There are plenty of oil companies that can be called US oil companies. They have predominately American stock holders. Meaning Americans own it. Exxon is one.
“This is our down payment. In return US oil companies get first consideration and some negotiated oil development contracts that are not put out to bid. After US oil companies get some nice deals then put the rest out to bid; This is how it should have been done.”
So contrary to everything about U.S. official policy on Iraq and the War; and contrary to what Bush did to get and keep enough support going for the war, you and a fellow poster here are now in agreement with the position of the Marxist’s anti-war movement - we went to war to get the oil?
Too bad we get 60+ percent of our imported oil from North and South America, and at current prices that will continue to increase and continue to shrink the Middle East portion of our imports - now about 22%.
So you and Mr. Trump want to reignite the Marxist’s antiwar clarion call, that we went to war in Iraq to get their oil, when, without such a notion we are gradually decreasing our dependence on Middle East oil, and will continue to do so; withing “taking” “cheaply” any oil from Iraq, beyond what Iraq wants to sell as, at prices it is offering to everyone.
You and Mr. Trump are the Don Quixote’s of our oil issues - flaying at windmills.