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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (542201)	1/8/2010 7:12:28 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575127

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? No. Like I said that would have been way too obvious. 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. First they were foiled by the Kurds who had their own plans and then they were foiled by Baghdad. Nonetheless, they still made serious coin on the Iraqi war and Mr. Bush will be taken care for the rest of his life by the grateful. 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. It is a big deal. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and he acted the part well. That of course was his business until he decided to run for office. Then it became the nation's business. And the last thing, I wanted was the spoiled scion of a rich oil man as president. 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. That was after his daddy got the investors to buy into the Rangers. They called him the little pup or something like that. 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, he did. Obama came from nothing to make something of himself. And it shows. 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. Who told you?