was the goal ever to benefit the *taxpayer*? > > Dane wrote: > > Who controls the flow from Iraq now? Who controlled it then? What is > the price of oil now? > > On this one you're barking up the wrong tree. The whole oil thing is > yet another massive failure and miscalculation by the Bush > administration. Remember when Lawrence Lindsey was fired for > claiming > Iraq would top $100 billion? Well ... > > Prior to the war the administration (Wolfowitz, Libby, Cheney, Feith, > etc) all said that oil would pay for our occupation: > > Paul Wolfowitz: "We're dealing with a country that can really finance > its own construction and relatively soon." > > 3 years later, that's still not true, and Iraq is costing the tax > payer $6 Billion per month and the costs are increasing! And America > has invested more to get oil than it's taken out (which isn't any > different than any of the business Bush ever ran considering they all > went bankrupt). > > In recent testimony to Congress Condoleeza Rice said: "They, uh, are, > uh, producing currently, uh, um, at below the, uh, prewar range." > > Translation: The American tax payer is fucked. There will be no oil > profits to pay for the war and there's no guarantee that anything > positive for America will be gained for America. In fact there's a > significant risk that the estimated $1 Trillion Iraq is going to cost > us will have bought us a more hostile world that we started with.
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