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Originally posted by Rilence
You mean Bill and Melinda Gates have spent loads of their own money on vaccinating people in other countries...?
Lots of US public money doing same, I don't think so...A little, maybe...
The huge majority is private money...Which proves nothing of the US and its people as far as generosity to overseas nations go...
Originally posted by Level X
How do you explain a hundred 6-12 year old virgins contracting Aids when the only thing inserted in her body was a needle of American made vaccine??
Originally posted by Level X True... there is some sort of barter... but... that barter doesn't warrant an occupying force murdering the population does it? There are bad intentions all over the globe... but why is America is always the hypocritical ring leader??
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
So your saying we're 'bartering' In Iraq?
Or not looting?
Originally posted by Equinox99
Well actually the US is in there for a few reasons.
1) To make way for the oil corporation come back.
2) Install a leader that enjoys Bush's hands up his rear end.
3) To have your troops ready to invade Iran.
4) To run the Middle East.
Am I wrong? Prove me otherwise.
"I'm saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: The Iraq war is largely about oil." – Alan Greenspan
This law (OIL LAW) has been in the works since the very beginning of the invasion - indeed, since months before the invasion, when the Bush administration brought in Phillip Carroll, former CEO of both Shell and Fluor, the politically-wired oil servicing firm, to devise "contingency plans" for divvying up Iraq's oil after the attack. Once the deed was done, Carroll was made head of the American "advisory committee" overseeing the oil industry
According to the Bush Administration, the notion that the occupation of Iraq was a means to gain control over that country’s vast oil reserves is “nonsense” and “a myth.”
Allow two-thirds of Iraq’s oil fields to be developed by private oil corporations. In contrast, the oil industry has been nationalized in every other major Middle Eastern producer for over 30 years.
Place governing decisions over oil in a new body known as the Iraqi Federal Oil and Gas Council, which may include foreign oil companies;
Open the door for foreign oil companies to lock up decades-long deals
With 115 billion barrels of proven reserves ($7 trillion worth at $64 per barrel) and another 215 billion possible or likely ($14 trillion), there’s nearly a million dollars of oil for every Iraqi citizen
It would allow the first large-scale operation of foreign oil companies in the country since the industry was nationalized in 1972
Really? I guess getting rid of Saddam wasn't a reason. You know, the guy that throws people into woodchippers.
Ready to invade Iran? And where did you get this tidbit of knowledge? Some ass-hats blog? Or something from Prisonplanet; you know, "an unconfirmed source".
This time it is the world's biggest oil companies leading the charge, 36 years after Saddam Hussein kicked them out.
The oil giants are seeking access to Iraq's rich crude reserves, Australian companies BHP Billiton and Woodside are among them.
The Iraqi government wants to make up for the lost opportunities under Hussein's rule and has the ambitious goal of doubling Iraqi oil production to more than 4 million barrels a day within five years.
Source
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
... please, after all this time dont tell me there's still some people out there looking for WMD's and fighting for Iraqi's freedom?
Originally posted by jerico65
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
... please, after all this time dont tell me there's still some people out there looking for WMD's and fighting for Iraqi's freedom?
So, it was all rainbows and sunshine when Saddam was in power? No one was being tossed into woodchippers, or tortured simply because they lost a soccer game???
WMDs? You know, no one here has ever explained all the road traffic I saw going into Syria at the beginning of the war. Now, this isn't something I saw on youtube, prisonplanet, rawstory, or whatever. I saw it with my eyes.
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
... how about all that traffic leaving Iraq was Iraqi's leaving, because they knew what was coming?