USA in Iraq. whats your impression?

davidmc

That's why i would say to this admin.," Don't go away mad, just go away" The scary part is they're still in the running.

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limerickman

Okay, I see.
Yes, I seem to recall that they wanted to acquire some American companies
a few years back but I couldn't recall which ones (Exxon, Chevron ???)
It's not impertant, anyhow.

BP are a major player in the oil industry as you probably know.
But even still £1,000,000 profit per hour is astonishing.

Bikerman2004

Most activity in the US is gas drilling. The US supplies 90% of its own natural gas. Which is used mostly to generate electricity. Unfortunately most oil wells in the continental US are either old, poor producing wells or cost prohibitive to operate. That will change if oil prices stay this high. This doesn't include offshore and Alaskan wells.

szbert

OK, so they make US$16Billion a year in profit. So what? They earn it.

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szbert

Most of the activity in the Permian basin is oil. The pumps that are idle are idle because it's cost prohibitive. IN the 80's, Midland Texas was loaded with billionaires. Now, it's a comparative ghost town. Office space can be rented for just a few percent of what it was 20 years ago.

limerickman

ROYAL DUTCH SHELL ANNOUNCED THRID QUARTER PROFITS TODAY TO
30th SEPTEMBER 2004 : £2.4 BILLION (STERLING) OR £1.1M PER HOUR.

The war in Iraq certainly appears to be benefitting the oil companies.

Some facts : under Saddam Hussein : 4 million barrels of oil per day was pumped from Iraq in to the world oil market.

Since March 2003 (the US invasion of Iraq), oil production in Iraq has dropped to
1 million barrels per day.
A significant drop in world supply : and thus pushing the demand price for oil,
in overall context, aligned with greater demand from India and China.

Oil men thus profit.

davidmc

True-54% profit for Royal Dutch Shell, see-http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=69365

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Carrera

I agree, more or less. But I also think it wouldn't have been anything like this bad if they had overthrown Saddam during the first Gulf War. Hardly anyone would have made a big deal about it.
However, what happened was they hit Iraq with sanctions that affected the security and well-being of thousands of children. Sanctions affected the most vulnerable Iraqis, not the elite in Saddam's circle. Also, in the end, to follow years of sanctions with military action was basically a step too far.
Why did Bush invade? A mixture of reasons: Oil, a grudge against Hussein that went back years, Saddam's vow to sell oil to France and China after sanctions ran out and his payoffs to the families of suicide bombers.
But was it worth the split with Europe to invade Iraq when this could have been done years back with the full support of allies. Myself I don't think so. I think the regime would have collapsed by natural means.

Weisse Luft

Sanctions were a UN remedy. Want to bet the UN already had plans for corruption back in 1991?

FredC

What are your answers to the pseudo judeo calculations of Cartesian Algebraics as to the amount of land stolen and it's value on occupied stolen property in the past and it's present. This simple question is well within your capabilities after your submission of EMTA, organophosphates, and the derivatives. Now if you want a real one, try me on polymeric or isomerics. One to one.

limerickman

Whitey, won't supply an answer because he knows that he's part of the wrong team and history proves he's part of the wrong team since the start of time.

Look for heavens sake - Whitey runs out of the undergrowth and makes ludicrous statements about being right and being intellectually sure of his ground and when someone comes along with more knowledge and more education with a counter view, he disappears ! (or he accuses the opposing view of being anti-semitic : they always try this one "anti-semitic" : which in
english means "I've been found out - but let me trade on my religion, to bail me out !").

Fred - our friend made a statement which even he couldn't believe (he tried to promulgate that cutting down forestation actually increases the volume of
oxygen on the planet ! - go figure that one ?).

You're wasting your time with Whitey - let him whine on - no one believes, much less cares to be honest.

FredC

Well I aware of that situation of his subconcious guilt of not living in Israel. He only has a tenuous link to himself, and a guilt complex. This is probably why he overstates his ignorance at all things in the attempt to subjugate the readers. He also sees any criticism, from whatever quarter as xenophobic, which he transalates as anti-semitic to justify an attempt to make himself a defender.

Ssushi

Whats amazing here is the shear amount of misled people who actually think this is about liberation... I'm gobsmacked!!

davidmc

liberator's, it would seem to us, but to them...

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George Carlin
US comedian and actor (1937 - )