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To: tejek who wrote (542187)	1/8/2010 5:05:36 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574883

If you believe it was about wanting oil and doing anything to get it, why didn't we steal Iraq's oil? Give me a break. They wouldn't outright steal it...not with the whole world watching. They move in their companies like HAL to take advantage of the situation...and they did. You do remember those no competitive bid contracts. What do you think they were about? I think they were about supplying the US military, running commissaries, shipping material. Just like they did in the Balkans. Are you saying Halliburton has been secretly stealing Iraq's oil for years? With Bush, his whole life was one that revolved around oil money. That's right...it was oil money that made his life possible. Bush's Dad did make money in the oil business. Big deal. Yup. He used his daddy's influence to get investors to buy the TX Rangers and he was part of the deal: I'm sure being his father's son helped him, but he did a lot of promotion work for the team. He functioned as the public face of the team. This wasn't a guy who pulled himself up by his bootstraps. So what? Did Obama not benefit from his elite prep school education? Yes, with all the sanctions on Saddam, that was very unlikely. You don't think American intel knew that Saddam was spending his money on palatial estates, not nukes? No they didn't and Pollack made that clear. 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.