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That is a good question.I never even thought about now I have you Thank you

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posted by Mystereo on January 1, 2009 at 4:58 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Smittenheimer: Bravo! good work!

The one thing I failed to mention is the MILLIONS of Viet Namese, and Iraqis killed for the sake of making rich people, richer. Thank you for bringing to light my omission. I'm sure the Viet and Iraqi parents, mourn for their children, as much as we do for ours.

posted by muley12 on December 29, 2008 at 1:02 PM | link to this | reply

I searched on google, here is some information http://www.handsoffiraqioil.org/

Despite the Iraqi people rejecting the occupation-pushed Iraqi Oil Law, the Iraqi Ministry of Oil is steaming ahead with 20-year contracts for International Oil Companies to run Iraq's biggest producing fields.

With a combined total of 40 billion barrels, at no point in history has so great a quantity of known oil been offered in a single bid round to international oil companies, in any country.

The largest oil companies in the world will meet for a three day conference to work out contractual conditions for controlling Iraq's giant oil reserves for a generation.

Iraq is an occupation-made humanitarian disaster. 40% of the population relies on contaminated drinking water, over 3 million refugees are living desperate lives in Syria, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, the death toll from this ongoing war exceeds 1 million lives and Iraqi civilians continue to be bombed in their homes, marketplaces and streets by both occupation and terror group attacks.

Iraqis are saying NO to both the occupation and the oil privatisation it is pushing.

Come and show solidarity with the people of Iraq resisting oil grab and occupation and show the likes of Shell, BP, Exxon and the rest that Iraq's oil belongs to the Iraqi people.

posted by Smittenheimer on December 29, 2008 at 12:33 PM | link to this | reply

Re: Short Tales: I am not sure how much truth there is on what we're told

posted by muley12 on December 29, 2008 at 9:32 AM | link to this | reply

Short Tales

Opposite of Tall Tales. I have read a bit about the oil in Iraq. Production has been slow to recover, due to sabotage, like the rest of the Iraqi infrastructure we destroyed, but oil has continued to flow to some extent. Hence the $70 billion surplus the Iraqi government had. Surplus, however, was a temporary description; they just hadn't got around to using it, because they were trying to get us to pay for everything. Frankly, after what we did to get into the war and how we ran things once there, we kind of owe them. But now the Iraqi government is spending its own money.

Here's a prediction (borrowed from the Cato Institute): so long as the Iraqi oil industry is controlled by the central government, it will act as a defacto dictatorship until someone comes along and makes it a true dictatorship again. Putting all the economic power in the hands of the political powers is a really bad idea. But when has any government peacefully decreased its own power? It may take a civil war to fix the problem (a very sad commentary on human nature).

posted by mousehop on December 29, 2008 at 7:42 AM | link to this | reply

Re: adnohr: I don't know, it seems to be a well guarded secret.

posted by muley12 on December 28, 2008 at 5:26 PM | link to this | reply

Good question...where is the oil going? What's the story? How can we find this information?

posted by adnohr on December 28, 2008 at 5:18 PM | link to this | reply

~peace

posted by Blue_feathers on December 28, 2008 at 4:50 AM | link to this | reply

My son is a soldier, I wish we would get out of there! I thought did a great job with this series too! sam

posted by sam444 on December 27, 2008 at 11:12 PM | link to this | reply

Sad to say the least Mike. I think you are correct.