[Suck My AR-16]

It must be made very clear that the resources of United States will finally be available for the use of the U.S. people, for the betterment of those same people.

In that, the United States people will finally share in the wealth of their country that has always belonged to them rather than corporations sharing it with their family and the cronies of their brutal regime.

[nanomid]

What a Communist Interpretation!

The property is owned Specifically by a citizen of the US
it's not meant to be owned Generally by the citizens. That can only be done by the Government
which is not supposed to own it!

[gaucho]

President Bush said several months ago that portions of Iraqi oil profits would be used to help defray the costs of the military operation, the rebuilding of Iraq's infrastructure and the expenses associated with post-war administration. I personally never viewed the costs of this war as something that US Taxpayers would ultimately be responsible for.

[Quix]

HEAR! HEAR!

Sanity strikes again. Could get to be a habit!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[Delta 21]

We could pay for the war, handsomely reimburse every family of a coalition casualty, reduce the price of super unleqaded to 25 c ents a gallon for the next 25 years , and Iraq will still have enough oil to become one of the wealthiest countries in the world.

[mrsmith]

Yes: Loser pays!

Obviously this will drive our ACLU commie lawyers berserk.
Constitution-hating lawyers will instead be demanding a 30% contingency to sue Iraq for our costs.
(Hey, that's $20 billion- can't blame them for trying LOL!)

[wayoverontheright]

Russia's refusal to play ball and the fall of Iraq will kill OPEC. Like a disease with no cure, OPEC has been affecting adversely the free market for crude since 1973.

Each time the shieks meet in Vienna and decide on production quotas, billions of dollars flow out of the coffers of petroleum using countries, that is, until the inevitable "leaks" by one country or other, and the price stabilizes again. The damage to the market however, is not limited to that provided by quotas. The uncertainty inserted into the market by OPEC's shenanigans severely impairs the inflow of risk capital and causes the futures markets to underserve entry into the market at every level of distribution; extraction, shipping, storage, refining, and wholesale and retail activities are all affected adversely.

Owing to the sanctions and outdated extraction technology, in recent years Iraq has been pumping only about 30% of what it could be pumping. As these obstacles are removed and OPEC's meetings become void of effect, a degree of certainty will return to the world petroleum market, and the effect on its capital structures will cause the price at the pump to plunge to real levels not seen in decades. The world economies will become fuel injected and the world's largest petroleum user will experience the turbocharging of its economic engine, a fitting consequence to all of this since it was our economy which was attacked to start this whole sequence of events.