Here’s the cold, hard fact: Bush has not made one red cent off of Iraqi oil. Period. If anything, the new Iraqi government has made money off of oil, and perhaps one could say the American people have benefited from purchasing oil from Iraq, but the fact remains that Iraqi oil has *never* been in our control.
Edge Caliber: Yes, we have, because it’s been made available to us now, but it’s also sold to a load of other countries besides ours.
Oh yeah, and keep in mind that the American people gaining some indirect benefit of a new oil supplier != Bush directly lining his pockets from oil revenues
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ingorance? anger? bitterness? or just plain moonbats with tin foil hats on? maybe all of the above.
You know it, I know it. The libs don’t want to know it.
To answer this question correctly you have to consider the liberal mentality; everything is a conspiracy theory, every authority figure related to Bush or around Bush is evil incarnate, and everything Bush does, or doesnt do is a political oppurtunity for them to Bash him.
Of course Bush didnt make any money of Iraqi Oil… but the left never lets the facts get in the way of their version of the truth.
Its just the way it is.
You are right
He did it for his daddy, Saddam planned to have older Bush assasinated
They just hate him. Pure and simple. When Clinton was president I didn’t like him. But I NEVER took it to the level that the Bush haters do. I always had respect for the office. They ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Oil has tripled in price because of the war….that alone is a huge profit margin.
He was lobbyed by companies like Halliburton and Blackwater which had given him lobbyed money.
He has received lots of money from Saudia Arabia which like before tripled their income.
“American people have benefited from purchasing oil from Iraq”
and all I have to say to this comment is wow.
You are in denial, Dude. Once the production sharing agreements are forced through the U. S. controlled Iraqi government, Bush’s work will be done. The production of oil Iraq was supposed to “pay” for the war according to Wolfowitz. Since the beginning of the needless pre-emptive invasion of Iraq, oil production there has been reduced by about 70%, and the price of oil has skyrocketed . . . beneftiing the Bush family and their friends. If you think otherwise, you are either a Bush sychophant, blind, or stupid.
With Bush going to the mideast lately and trying to pull off a magic trick there… I’m starting to believe that this war is all about his own personal ego, or that he wants to leave a “legacy”..
The honest answer from me on why we went to Iraq has always been… “I have no clue”.. Cause none of the reasoning for the war in Iraq has ever made any sort of sense…
Its not that he didn’t want to. In fact from his own lips came the justification that after the war, Iraq would pay for the USA liberating Iraq with their oil revenues. I remember him saying exactly that. So it would wind up costing America nothing financially. Of course that wasn’t taking into account the price of the military manpower lost which of course is priceless.
Oh, how soon we forget. That Bush! What a guy!
According to Australia’s leaders, it was all about oil:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7t_u641NyM
Republican Christopher Shays says we can’t let an “unfriendly country control all that oil”…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNlwgQ3lZJM
You might not want to make statements about people holding these “conspiracy theories” when a good portion of your own party is in agreement.
Liberals are idiots.
Bush was interested in one thing: enriching his cronies. He has succeeded beyond his wildest expectations – or haven’t you heard of all the multi-million-dollar, no-bid contracts awarded to Bush friends like Halliburton with no oversight whatsoever? Didn’t you hear about the eight BILLION dollars in cash flown to Iraq that nobody can account for? Haven’t you heard about such mercenaries as Blackwater, paying it’s employees six figures each to butcher Iraqi women and children? Bush and his crowd of thieves and murderers make the old New York Mafia look like a band of angels!