[WhiteGuy]

After all who do you think is going to pay the bill for this war?

So, American forces slip in and capture the Iraqi iol fields. Then American forces turn over the Iraqi oil production program over to.........??????

In other words who will the oil companies BUY the oil from?

The militatry? the US government? the Iraqi's? Who will earn the profit?

What if the takeover of the oil fields goes less well?

Perhaps 50% to 75% of the wells are destroyed?

Who will pay to repair them? AND who will profit from the billions it will cost (US Taxpayers) to repair them.

I'd sure like to know the answesrs to these questions, wouldn't you?

[Tom Bombadil]

I'd sure like to know the answesrs to these questions, wouldn't you?

The answers are found in the integrity of the person running the show if the oil fields are protected from damage by the Iraqi military.

I suspect that GWB would reserve the oil for the use of the Iraqi people and that the fields would be turned over very quickly to a new Iraqi government.

The cynical political view would probably hold otherwise, but that view lacks credibility anyway.

[agincourt1415]

To answer your question. The Oil income will be placed in trust for the rebuild or Iraq. Besides their is so much World Scrutiny of this operation, we would never get away with converstion of resources away from Iraq.

[Deb]

A few weeks ago the Wall Street Journal reported that the Bush administation has signed deals with Iraqi opposition leaders to keep control of Iraqi oil profits in their country, to rebuild and sustain their economy. Also to dispell the whole "Blood for Oil" nonsense and because Bush felt that profits from Iraqi oil should benefit the Iraqi people. Of course, practically no one reported this story.

I don't remember if the story I read mentioned that some money would be used to off-set the cost of American action, but it would sense that Bush would have included that.