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sabra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 03:11 PM Original message |
Iraqis miss oil fortune: report (billions going to foreign oil companies) |
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malmapus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
1. Wait wasn't that money suppose to go to the rebuilding of Iraq |
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sabra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 03:22 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. remember, what ever they say, the opposite is true. |
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wordpix2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 06:49 PM Response to Reply #1 |
35. the high paid CEOs like Cheney said this is how to fund their war; I say |
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Drum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
2. gosh, what a surprise... |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
3. Better not train that Iraqi Army too well |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
5. Now I wonder who they could possibly be talking about? |
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Maggie_May (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
6. Thats why the pipe lines get blown up |
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Megahurtz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
7. This is just sick!!! |
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sabra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 03:42 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. CNN will prolly deem it as a conspiracy theory from a bunch |
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Megahurtz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 03:58 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Sadly, you're probably right. |
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AntiFascist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 05:53 PM Response to Reply #12 |
30. CNN is probably hoping that this stirs up the Iraqis..... |
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sabra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 05:56 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. LOL |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
8. Hey, DICK! DICK!!! How's about your secret energy group?!?!?! |
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donkeyotay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 05:11 PM Response to Reply #8 |
24. Don't forget Chalabi who is now the oil minister in Iraq nt |
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nebula (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
9. and Cheney's Halliburton stock options rise 3,281% |
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bullimiami (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 03:31 PM Response to Original message |
10. its called plunder. its what they paid for when they bought the executive |
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Miss Chybil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 03:31 PM Response to Original message |
11. And now the truth comes out. |
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ninkasi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
13. What a perverted sense of justice we have in this country... |
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Megahurtz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 04:00 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Well said. n/t |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 05:34 PM Response to Reply #13 |
27. Sometimes you even get a medal |
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TX-RAT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
16. If the people of Iraq don't like it, just renegotiate. |
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mbperrin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 04:26 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Owners of mineral rights generally have to sign those leases. |
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TX-RAT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 04:33 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. and these wells used to have other operators |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
17. Don't Iraqis have the right to their own natural resources? |
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Disturbed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 04:37 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Blood for oil? |
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TX-RAT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 04:51 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. Yes they do, just as soon as their lease or agreements runs out. |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 05:55 PM Response to Reply #22 |
31. Who signed that "lease"? Bremer? Wolfowitz? Halliburton? |
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progressoid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 04:42 PM Response to Original message |
21. Christ - oil profits aren't going to be used to pay off the war & they |
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ThePopulist (185 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 04:58 PM Response to Original message |
23. What's so fucking funny..... |
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donkeyotay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
25. The Democrats tried to get a windfall profits tax on the oil companies |
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VegasWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
26. Imagine that! Now how could a thing like that happen with Halliburton's |
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saddemocrat (294 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
28. Outrageous.... |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
29. It's the Crude, Dude |
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AntiFascist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
33. It's called Return on Investment... |
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0007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
34. Does this make 'ya sick |
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wordpix2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-23-05 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
36. this really makes me understand the Iraqis who blow up pipelines |
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sabra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-05 09:15 AM Response to Original message |
37. .... |
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ItsThePeopleStupid (179 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-05 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
38. more info |
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leesa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-05 10:31 PM Response to Original message |
39. This should surprise no one. It was made clear. |
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goforit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-24-05 10:37 PM Response to Original message |
40. The greatest robbery ever. |
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