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Originally posted by Nrg2Nfinit lol this is a totally irrelevant comparison since romania wasnt taken over by the US and then the mcdonalds installed then..

true that is a difference, however it doesnt prove america is imperialist. new contracts have been signed lately for areas in rwanda and uganda where new reserves of oil have been found. so what? what i see is an industry that is expanding naturally....

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Originally posted by Izzy true that is a difference, however it doesnt prove america is imperialist. new contracts have been signed lately for areas in rwanda and uganda where new reserves of oil have been found. so what? what i see is an industry that is expanding naturally....

thats all fine and dandy
but we weren't talking about rwansda or uganda.
Theres been so much hype about the war for oil, we go to war, first thing that happens, halliburton, the vice presidents company, gets a contract for digging oil
if you think thats an industry expanding naturally, you're blind

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Originally posted by Az thats all fine and dandy but we weren't talking about rwansda or uganda. Theres been so much hype about the war for oil, we go to war, first thing that happens, halliburton, the vice presidents company, gets a contract for digging oil if you think thats an industry expanding naturally, you're blind

lol yes.. naturally isnt the right word...

Mmm Cheney's ex company.... oil.... money.... money from congress to ESPECIFICALLY recontruct the oil wells.. cheney...cheney's ex company... mmmmmmmmmmm I so knew it!!!!

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Originally posted by Az thats all fine and dandy but we weren't talking about rwansda or uganda. Theres been so much hype about the war for oil, we go to war, first thing that happens, halliburton, the vice presidents company, gets a contract for digging oil if you think thats an industry expanding naturally, you're blind

The contract isn't about "digging" Iraqi oil or taking Iraqi oil. The contract is for EXTINGUISHING the oil fires. And why this company? Hmmmm maybe cuz they extinguished the oil well fires in Kuwait in 1991????

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle....storyID=2446317

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Originally posted by occrider The contract isn't about "digging" Iraqi oil or taking Iraqi oil. The contract is for EXTINGUISHING the oil fires. And why this company? Hmmmm maybe cuz they extinguished the oil well fires in Kuwait in 1991???? http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle....storyID=2446317

the problem most ppl. are having with this is that US companies seem to be getting special preference over the awarding of contracts...raising questions about just how much the US really cares abt Iraqi liberation...already there has been a rift between the British, who want to return the port of Umm Qasr to the Iraqis, and the US, which has given a US company a contract for it

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Originally posted by occrider The contract isn't about "digging" Iraqi oil or taking Iraqi oil. The contract is for EXTINGUISHING the oil fires. And why this company? Hmmmm maybe cuz they extinguished the oil well fires in Kuwait in 1991???? http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle....storyID=2446317

it's not just extinguishing the oil fires, Halliburton will be reconstructing parts of iraq, and digging for oil to help rebuilds Iraq's economy, all at hefty profit for Halliburton...

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Originally posted by AnotherWay83 the problem most ppl. are having with this is that US companies seem to be getting special preference over the awarding of contracts...raising questions about just how much the US really cares abt Iraqi liberation...already there has been a rift between the British, who want to return the port of Umm Qasr to the Iraqis, and the US, which has given a US company a contract for it

A contract for what?? You mean like the deed to the city? I don't know why a company would want such a thing ...

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Originally posted by Az it's not just extinguishing the oil fires, Halliburton will be reconstructing parts of iraq, and digging for oil to help rebuilds Iraq's economy, all at hefty profit for Halliburton...

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Originally posted by occrider Sources?

from an interview on BBC news 24 with a spokeswoman from Halliburton
the hefty profits bit wasn't included

-There HAS to be a reason for the companies to drool over and help reconstruct Iraq.. I mean, wouldn't it be NICE if the companies would be THAT kinda and HUMANITARIAN?!?! .. well, the truth is, that's not what companies are looking for, these companies are drooling for big time profit... it's all pure BS that Bush doesnt want the OIL fields destryoed because of environment!! loooool!!!!1 Bush saying that?!?!? hahahahahaha

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Originally posted by LiquidX -There HAS to be a reason for the companies to drool over and help reconstruct Iraq.. I mean, wouldn't it be NICE if the companies would be THAT kinda and HUMANITARIAN?!?! .. well, the truth is, that's not what companies are looking for, these companies are drooling for big time profit... it's all pure BS that Bush doesnt want the OIL fields destryoed because of environment!! loooool!!!!1 Bush saying that?!?!? hahahahahaha

Well of course the companies are doing it for the money!! They wouldn't be in business for very long otherwise! It's not like the Iraqi people are paying for all of this, it's all coming out of the 2.4 billion dollar reconstruction package going to Iraq to rebuild its infrastructure. And Az yes at a hefty profit for the company but at a great deal of cost to the government!

What the hell ... the US needs to invade my house and then set up a $500,000 reconstruction package to rebuild infrastructure.