HAL and the rest of the Bush/Cheney circle wanted to be in on the inside circle of who was to be in charge of getting Iraqi oil out to the world.
So why didn't they? Why didn't they even try? Or are you going to claim they stole Iraq's oil secretly?
First they were foiled by the Kurds who had their own plans and then they were foiled by Baghdad.
When were they foiled? How? When Baghdad tried to award some service contracts to western companies (not HAL) and Congress insisted they be canceled?
Nonetheless, they still made serious coin on the Iraqi war
If you mean by fulfilling their service contracts - driving trucks, serving food, etc - so what.
and Mr. Bush will be taken care for the rest of his life by the grateful.
Bush doesn't need to be taken care of. This is just fantasy.
That was after his daddy got the investors to buy into the Rangers.
There's no sign his father got anyone to do anything. I'm sure his name helped but none that his father pulled strings. Again, you're just making it up.
Did Obama not benefit from his elite prep school education?
Yes, he did. Obama came from nothing to make something of himself. And it shows.
He went to an elite prep school just like Bush. Obviously Obama's grandparents strived to give him advantages.
Heck, we didn't know Kaddafi had a nuclear weapons program till he was caught and gave it up out of fear of being invaded like Saddam was.
Who told you?
U.S. Energy Secretary Displays Libyan Nuclear Arms At Oak Ridge, March 15, 2004
(Says all ingredients were available for a nuclear weapons program)
By Todd Bullock
Washington File Staff Writer
Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham showed reporters nuclear weapons material retrieved from Libya at a Department of Energy facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on March 15.
"All of the ingredients were available for a weapons program. Happily, this equipment is no longer in Libya," Secretary Abraham said.
Examples of material shown to reporters included aluminum casings that would have enclosed high-speed centrifuges to separate weapons fuel from ordinary uranium gas, according to Abraham.
Abraham said that the United States removed 4,000 centrifuges from Libya. He added that a uranium enrichment facility so equipped could produce enough nuclear material each year for several nuclear weapons.
The nuclear equipment was part of a shipment of 55,000 tons of material that the United States removed from Libya in January, after Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi agreed to end his nuclear program and give up the nuclear equipment.
Qadhafi publicly gave up his weapons of mass destruction programs in December 2003 following an incident in which U.S. agents seized a ship carrying thousands more centrifuge parts bound for Libya in October 2003.
The first shipment flown out of Libya included some of the most sensitive items in Libya's nuclear program, including three canisters of uranium hexafluoride gas. A ship carrying 500 tons of cargo, including the rest of Libya's nuclear weapons equipment, is scheduled to arrive at a North Carolina port in late March.
All of Libya's nuclear equipment is being held at the Energy Department's Y-12 facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). ORNL conducts basic and applied research and development to create scientific knowledge; increase availability of clean, abundant energy; restore and protect the environment; and contribute to national security.
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