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Originally Posted by Seeds Of Hate
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The last one was interesting, I thought the following segment raises some interesting questions:
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The Axis Of Oil
France, Russia and China are the main opponents of this war. Because innocent people will die? Of course not. Russia and China aren't exactly the poster children of human rights.
So why are they so adamantly opposed to US intervention in Iraq?
Oil, of course.
Iraq possesses about 12% of the world's oil reserves- an estimated 112.5 billion barrels. It's widely believed there may be a lot more untapped oil there, making them the number one source of oil in the world. Rather tempting to a world dependent on the finite resource.
I say George Bush Junior just cuts the bullshit already and just uses all the Iraqi oil to buy a ****ing Death Star.
The sad thing is, if he wasn't against cloning that wouldn't surprise me.
Mr. Speaker, members of Congress, and fellow Americans, I present to you Darth Bush.
In 1997, Lukoil, Russia's primary oil company, reached an agreement to develop the West Qurna oil field, one of Iraq's largest oil prospects. The $3.7 billion dollar deal lasted until December 2002, The deal was cancelled because Russia was looking for post-Saddam oil deals. The only way for them to regain the contract was to keep Saddam in power.
Similarily, China's National Petrolium Corporation had been in talks to develop Iraqi oil fields after UN sanctions were lifted. China National also signed an agreement with Iraq for the North Rumailah field. Their needs of Persian Gulf oil is expected to grow from 1997's 0.5 million barrels of oil a day to 5.5 million barrels of a oil a day in 2020. Once they become dependant on America for their oil, they become strongly susceptible to "Western" diplomatic and economic influence. I don't think they want that.
France has also been in talks with Iraq to develop the Majnun field after sanctions were lifted.
There are five companies that dominate the world's oil market. It shouldn't be surprising that two of those are American companies and two are primarily British countries.
And where is the fifth company primarily based? France, of course.
The United States and England had a ¾ share of Iraq's oil production. They lost this share when Iraq nationalized oil production in 1972 and turned to France and Russia for partnerships. By installing a new, American-controlled dictator in Hussein's place, the US and UK effectively gain control of possibly the world's largest oil cache, and can privatize it right into the hands, and bank accounts, of the big four oil companies.
Is it any surprise that these countries would oppose the United States controlling this land?
Why is the Bush family so much more hell bent, sorry, "heaven bent," on Iraq's oil than the other presidents? Because the Bush administration and their associated henchmen have more to gain than any other presidents:
Both George Bush Junior and Dick Cheney both worked in the oil business, and still have strong ties therein
41 Senior White House officials were former oil executives and have significant stock holdings or other financial ties
National Security Advisor Condaleeza Rice is a former director of Chevron, and even has an oil tanker named after her
In 1944, The United States and Great Britain signed an oil pact on "the principal of equal opportunity." Six years after that, UK Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd outlined the First World's oil policy: "At all costs these oil fields must be kept in Western Hands." Forty two years later, Dick Cheney restated it: "Our strategy must now focus on precluding the emergence of any possible competitor."
As occupying power, the United States will assume sole responsibility for Iraq's immense oil reserves, making it a virtual member of OPEC, and the most powerful one at that.
And big oil and the government know that.
In 1998, Chevron CEO Kenneth T. Derr told the San Francisco Commonwealth Club that "Iraq poses huge reserves of oil and gas… reserves I'd love Chevron to have access to." One year after that, Commander-In-Chief of US Central Command, General Anthony C. Zinni, testified to Congress that Gulf oil is of "vital interest" to the United States, and that the United States "must have free access to the region's resources."
Predetermination
If only John Calvin knew that half of it.
Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney, or "Evil Sadistic Murderer" for short, has significant economic reasons to go to war beyond just oil.
Until he stepped down to become George Bush Junior's running mate, Cheney served as chief executive of Halliburton, a large corporation that makes billions of dollars from Middle East refining and "reconstruction." Dick Cheney still earns over $1 million dollars a year from the company and has significant stock holdings. His severance package alone was $30 million. Cheney has been using his power to provoke war and negotiate deals in order to raise his stock prices.
In 2001, Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown, and Root scored a ten year long Pentagon deal called the "Logistics Civil Augmentation Program" for "cost-plus-award-fee, indefinite delivery and quantity." The company has since made over $830 million dollars in the deal. They also have the Pentagon contract for controlling Iraqi oil fields, in what may add up to as much as $1.5 billion in contracts. Can we trust a man who will see immense profit in a war to tell us the truth or even push us in the right direction?
Maybe that was a question to ask before we didn't elect them in the 2000 elections, but now that they have the office anyways, it's a little too late.
Now that America has successfully freed the Iraqi oil fields, Halliburton has been awarded, without competition, a $7 billion contract to put out the Iraqi oil fires.
If irony was a Tom Daschle statement, these paragraphs would be rescinded, that ***** ****."
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