If you have the right incentives you can make a case to
invade who ever you want. Especially if they hold
strategic resources or real estate.
America & the free world will win, by restoring the Iraqi Oil Fields to their former production capacity and aiding in new exploration.
Yes you are right. This article gives an idea who is
bidding on that.
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Postwar profiteers
How a handful of construction firms got an early invitation to rebuild Iraq
A select group of U.S. construction firms now bidding on a
lucrative government contract to rebuild a postwar Iraq
contributed a combined $2.8 million--68 percent to
Republicans--over the past two election cycles.
The U.S. Agency for International Development asked Bechtel
Group Inc., Fluor Corp., Halliburton Co. subsidiary
Kellogg, Brown & Root, Louis Berger Group Inc. and Parsons
Corp. to submit bids last week for the $900-million
contract. This initial estimate for repairing and building
water systems, roads, bridges, schools and hospitals in the
country is just the first step in what the Wall Street
Journal called "the largest government reconstruction
effort since Americans helped to rebuild Germany and Japan
after World War II." The firms that land the contract are
also likely to make the short list for future projects in
Iraq, which include plans to develop the country's oil
industry.
Bechtel, the engineering giant that employed the likes of
former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, former
Secretary of State George Schultz and former CIA Director
William Casey before they took their government posts, gave
$1.3 million in individual, PAC and soft money
contributions between 1999 and 2002. As it prepares its bid
for the postwar project, Bechtel is facing allegations that
it contributed to Iraq's military buildup nearly two
decades ago. The San Francisco Chronicle has reported that
a German journalist uncovered a document prepared for the
United Nations by Iraq that says Bechtel was among 24 U.S.
companies that supplied the country with weapons during
the '80s.
Kellogg, Brown & Root and parent company Halliburton--which
was headed by Vice President Dick Cheney until 2000--was
the second-largest donor of the group, with more than
$709,000 in contributions. Halliburton also gave more to
Bush's presidential campaign--$17,677--than any of the
other bidders combined.
Fluor, which gave more than $483,000 in individual, PAC and
soft money contributions in the previous two election
cycles, also has ties to the Defense Department. Kenneth
Oscar, the company's vice president of strategy and
government services, recently served as the acting
assistant secretary of the Army, where he directed its $35
billion-a-year procurement budget.
Representatives from Bechtel and Halliburton told reporters
this week that they were asked to submit a bid because
they've done similar work with USAID in the past. Both
companies participated in the rebuilding of Kuwait,
particularly its oil fields, after the Gulf War.
workingforchange.com
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Will American as well as International Oil companies play a role in the upgrading of the Iraqi Oil infastructure ? - Yes, but the Iraqi people will be the primary beneficiary of the return of the Oil proceeds to rebuilding their country & it's economy.
I've read several articles that proposed that we will be
able to pay for our war and occupation expenses with Iraqi
oil. Many find it to be only fair since we will be
rebuilding their nation for them.
So if this is the case, what incentives do we have to make
it an "inexpensive" stay? At what point will we
say, "Okay, we are now paid in full." Who is going to tell
us to get out? Not bad for us, but I see why other
nations would be pissed.
I certainly see all of the economic benefits there are for
us. However much of the world does not see it as being
fair. It fringes on being imperialistic.
The Bush Admin failed at diplomacy because it want to.
There weren't the proper incentives to succeed.
If China or Russia was threatening to invade Mexico or
Venezuela because a few of banditos from there flew some
Cesnas loaded with cheap tequila and blew up Red Square or
Bejing, I believe we would have insured that diplomacy won
over war. It's all about incentives. You find what you
want to find. You succeed when you want to succeed.
The role that OIL plays in this War is secondary, but none the less, very, very important; as we must prevent OIL from being used as a WMED - ie: a Weapon of Mass Economic Destruction.
So when we begin to run low on other natural resources will
it be okay to invade them too? Just because a resource is
valuable and high priced not mean it is used a "WMED".
You'll all sleep in a much safer, secure world tonight and tomorrow, because of the courage of George Bush & Tony Blair.
Al Qaida is going to have more recruits than ever before.
To cripple our economy all it will take is another few hits
to NYC and the other cities. If I lived in Bumfug, Wyoming
or Cowtown, Montana I might sleep peacefully. Otherwise
I'm not certain how much safer and secure we are. Time
will tell.
I still think the world sees this invasion as another step
in securing for ourselves strategic places for military
bases and low cost energy. Everything else all
conveiniently fits along with our story...
It's a win-win situation for President Cheney and his
buddies. |
