Ya know... the oil actually belongs to Iraq... to the Iraqi people. Currently the Iraqi regime has some control over the money that is earned when the oil is sold... the oil for food routine via the UN sanctions work to some extent however the regime still manages to get their hands on a lot of the money... some of it through smuggling of oil.
The Russians currently have most of the contracts for supporting the oil producing infrastructure, pumps, pipelines etc... but the real money is in the oil, not the facilities. A regime change in Iraq opens the opportunity for a true redistribution of wealth. Currently the general Iraqi population is dirt poor. The money flows only through the regime and their cronies that is all about keeping the regime in power. Therefore most of the GNP is generated through military spending. With a regime change that money generated by the oil can be used for roads, librarys, industrial expansion, the general increase in the standard of living of the typical citizen. The US will not own the Iraqi oil .... unless of course we take over the country ala the techniques of Saddam when he took over Kuwait for a few months in 1990. Truthfully the worlds got plenty of oil right now... the world has been getting along just fine without the oil from Iraq which has been cut way back the last 10 or more years. Venezuela, which supplies 25% of the US oil imports is the real concern now... with their current slide towards civil war. At 09:51 AM 12/20/02, you wrote: >> I'm not saying it's right or wrong - but let's just be honest >> about our >> motivations here. > >I think that's how most people feel. If Brush would just come out and say >"Woo doggie... we're goin in there, crackin some Moslem skulls, and then >takin our God given right to all that black gold... woo doggie!!" I would >seriously support him more so than I do now. > >Blah.. Sadaam big threat... war on terror... blah... biological weapons. >What a dishonest pussy. > >Adam. > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 11:32 AM >> To: CF-Community >> Subject: RE: Hello? >> >> >> > >> > Jerry, who supplied him with the means to attack? We were >> > pushing weapons to Sadaam like crazy not even 20 years ago. >> > Must be convenient for the defense industry to sell a bunch >> > of shit, and then 20 years later have to sell a bunch more to >> > combat who they sold to in the first place. That doesn't seem >> > at all backwards? >> >> And why are we not all that concerned with the human rights violations >> going on in Kuwait? It's a monarchy not so disimiliar to Iraq in >> flavor. It's treatment of women in particular is awful. This isn't a >> kindred spirit we fought to save, folks. >> >> Why also are we simply not concerned with other, similar invasions and >> violations throughout the world? Why are we marginally involved in >> these many dozens but yet send billions of dollars worth of men and >> equipment to save Kuwait? >> >> Hmmm... What could it >oil< possibly >oil< be? How >oil< can we >oil< >> rectify this >oil< seemingly randomly >oil< applied foreign policy? >> >> I'm not saying it's right or wrong - but let's just be honest >> about our >> motivations here. >> >> Jim Davis >> >> >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
