USA in Iraq. whats your impression?

byron27

Interested to see what the americans here think.

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ryan_velo

I think bush whent into Iraq for oil and he got us into a big mess. Invading iraq is certanly not the way to fight terrorism. We could be useing all the money, troops, and recuorces to sucure our homeland to make sure the terrorists dont enter the country in the first place [make sense?] bush is a greedy moron.

Weisse Luft

$55/barrel?

'twas not for oil.

byron27

Yes, but who created that dependency?
Its not a dependency borne from a natural requirement to survive.
Its a dependency borne from the economic ethos employed in the US.

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pomod

hmmm, You have it, we need it. thank you very much. Sounds like a mugging by a crack addict.

Also at $55 and barrel there are more than a couple Texas oil men making killing at the moment.

Imagine if all the money spent on this war went into R and D for alternative energies. That would be real leadership, that would be a creative initiative instead of fabricating some a war and destabilizing the world to satisfy your addiction to fossil fuel and enrich your oil buddies.


I me mine, I me mine, I me mine -- George Harrison

Bikerman2004

Apparently, you don't work in the oil industry. Most drilling activity in the continental US is for natural gas. People always make these statements when they don't understand the economies of the industry.

limerickman

Pomod is correct.

BRITISH PETROLEUM ANNOUNCED PROFITS OF £1,000,000 PER HOUR yesterday.

Bikerman2004

Hmmmmm.....I think Pomod stated TEXAS OILMEN were getting rich! But then again maybe Texas oilmen own BP. Was that revenues or profits?

szbert

Most of the oil wells in the Permian basin (texas) have been inactive for years.

limerickman

Profit - in pounds Sterling, per hour.
£1,000,000.

BP was a nationalised industry up to the 1980's (owned by the British Goverment).
It is now a private company.
I think that they put a bid in to buy ARAMCO at one point (I might be wrong - but they definitely did target some US oil firms).

The results were flagged in yesterdays Financial Times.

davidmc

Granted, Iraq/Saddam was shooting at our & the brit's planes on a regular basis which was illegal. It cost alot of $ to merely contain him but, bush seemed to rush over there w/o adequate planning. I'm not particularly against mil. action just the timeline w/ which it was deployed. I would've relentlessly hammerred the other nations in the u.N. who refused to come on board. Granted, Saddam owed those countries a significant amount of money & they would'nt have recieved it, if they jumped on our "bandwagon." I would have completely exhausted all avenues in the U.N so that there would be no question as to the U.S.'s attempting to work w/ them. We already waited 12 yrs. but , i beleive bush ran to iraq for political purposes, thus not giving his "planner's & decider's"(his word's, he despises them) time to think through all of the contingiencies, or even sucess for that matter. So it's no wonder this foriegn adventure has blown up in his face. Saddam had to do w/ the palestinian/israel question & his grudge against him (remember the "he tried to kill my daddy" speech, not worldwide terrorism.

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limerickman

I did have a link to this story, but I misplaced it.

I'll paraphrase : third quarter profits announced by BP (British Petroleum) were
£2.2 billion (Sterling).

Taking 90 days and multiplying this number by 24 hours per day = 2,160 hours for the third quarter.
Divide 2,160 hours in to £2.2 billion profit = £1,000,000 profit PER HOUR !

Lord Browne (CEO and Chairman of BP) indicated that the rise in crude prices
and cost efficiences provided the resulting profit.

Bikerman2004

They bought the company or 'merged' with the company I work for.