Comments on: It’s All About The Price Of Oil http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/oil35companies/ Just another Firedoglake weblog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:28:30 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Kilo http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/oil35companies/comment-page-1/#comment-351 Kilo Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:15:23 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/oil35companies/#comment-351 <blockquote><p>Shahristani’s move crystallizes a dynamic intensifying in 2008: a trend toward greater clientism by the weak government to bolster itself against growing pan-sectarian nationalism.</p></blockquote> <p>Either that or, you know, they just doing what most countries with oil do when they don’t have the ability to do this themselves.</p>

Shahristani’s move crystallizes a dynamic intensifying in 2008: a trend toward greater clientism by the weak government to bolster itself against growing pan-sectarian nationalism.

Either that or, you know, they just doing what most countries with oil do when they don’t have the ability to do this themselves.

]]> By: TJ11 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/oil35companies/comment-page-1/#comment-348 TJ11 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:07:33 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/oil35companies/#comment-348 <p>Are the American people expected to leave their common sense behind when the government of the worlds largest oil consumer nation, the US, says the war is about democracy and not oil, while among the many candidate nations in dire need of a democracy makeover, only the one with large oil reserves gets the treatment?</p> Are the American people expected to leave their common sense behind when the government of the worlds largest oil consumer nation, the US, says the war is about democracy and not oil, while among the many candidate nations in dire need of a democracy makeover, only the one with large oil reserves gets the treatment?

]]> By: manonfyre http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/oil35companies/comment-page-1/#comment-343 manonfyre Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:19:21 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/oil35companies/#comment-343 <blockquote><p>Does the West (America and Great Britain primarily) think that the Mid East has forgotten the rape that began right after the World War I?</p> <p>~ Jerryinexile</p></blockquote> <p>Recall that Winston Churchill authorized the use of “<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2719939.stm" rel="nofollow">poison gas</a>” against the Kurds of northern Iraq twenty years before Saddam Hussein was even born.</p> <p>_________________________________</p> <p><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/21/5245/53102/836/458850" rel="nofollow">The Biggest Armed Robbery of this Nascent New Century</a></p> <p>more than 100 billion barrels of “proven” reserves times current price = 10.5 Trillion dollars</p>

Does the West (America and Great Britain primarily) think that the Mid East has forgotten the rape that began right after the World War I?

~ Jerryinexile

Recall that Winston Churchill authorized the use of “poison gas” against the Kurds of northern Iraq twenty years before Saddam Hussein was even born.

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The Biggest Armed Robbery of this Nascent New Century

more than 100 billion barrels of “proven” reserves times current price = 10.5 Trillion dollars

]]> By: Jerryinexile http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/oil35companies/comment-page-1/#comment-342 Jerryinexile Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:24:28 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/oil35companies/#comment-342 <p>I seriously doubt that George and Dick ever considered offering Saddam a “Helping Hand.” And I also doubt that anyone ever considered them doing so. None the less it sounds very tempting in hindsight.</p> I seriously doubt that George and Dick ever considered offering Saddam a “Helping Hand.” And I also doubt that anyone ever considered them doing so. None the less it sounds very tempting in hindsight.

]]> By: Jerryinexile http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/oil35companies/comment-page-1/#comment-341 Jerryinexile Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:17:04 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/oil35companies/#comment-341 <p>They just don’t see it. A failed Texas Oilman for President and an ex CEO of the largest Oil Service Co in the world for VP, and you have to ask? Yea, score another one for Occam’s Razor.</p> They just don’t see it. A failed Texas Oilman for President and an ex CEO of the largest Oil Service Co in the world for VP, and you have to ask? Yea, score another one for Occam’s Razor.

]]> By: BooRadley http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/oil35companies/comment-page-1/#comment-340 BooRadley Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:13:03 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/oil35companies/#comment-340 <p>Thanks Spencer, I don’t think it’s possible to give this <strike>“I drink your milkshake” “my father made him an offer he couldn’t refuse” </strike>too much sunlight. </p> <p><a href="http://digg.com/politics/It_s_All_About_The_Price_Of_Oil" rel="nofollow">digg</a></p> <p>Anyone have a link to speculation about how much lower the price of oil would be if we had just helped Saddam rebuild their infrastructure?</p> Thanks Spencer, I don’t think it’s possible to give this “I drink your milkshake” “my father made him an offer he couldn’t refuse” too much sunlight.

digg

Anyone have a link to speculation about how much lower the price of oil would be if we had just helped Saddam rebuild their infrastructure?

]]> By: twolf1 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/oil35companies/comment-page-1/#comment-339 twolf1 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:58:30 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/oil35companies/#comment-339 <p>Blue Texan has a <a href="http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/even-now-mccain-says-he-still-wouldve-invaded-iraq-presumably-for-the-hell-of-it/" rel="nofollow">new post up</a> over at FDL…</p> Blue Texan has a new post up over at FDL…

]]> By: Dclawyer06 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/oil35companies/comment-page-1/#comment-338 Dclawyer06 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:49:32 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/oil35companies/#comment-338 <p>I love how the American people are still debating whether the Iraq war was about the oil. I doubt you can find a majority in any other nation who hasn’t known this fact for at least 5 years.</p> <p>Still it’s good to point it out, the obvious sometimes alludes us.</p> I love how the American people are still debating whether the Iraq war was about the oil. I doubt you can find a majority in any other nation who hasn’t known this fact for at least 5 years.

Still it’s good to point it out, the obvious sometimes alludes us.

]]> By: dmac http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/oil35companies/comment-page-1/#comment-336 dmac Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:35:48 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/oil35companies/#comment-336 <p>thanks attackerman-</p> <p>didn’t do all of your links yet, in and out–this article from the fdl newsbox yesterday-<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/world/middleeast/30contract.html?_r=1&oref=slogin" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06.....ref=slogin</a></p> <p>-snip-</p> <p>In their role as advisers to the Iraqi Oil Ministry, American government lawyers and private-sector consultants provided template contracts and detailed suggestions on drafting the contracts, advisers and a senior State Department official said. </p> <p>It is unclear how much influence their work had on the ministry’s decisions. </p> <p>The advisers — who, along with the diplomatic official, spoke on condition of anonymity — say that their involvement was only to help an understaffed Iraqi ministry with technical and legal details of the contracts and that they in no way helped choose which companies got the deals. </p> <p>-snip-</p> <p>the reporter, andrew kramer was on the diane rehm show today.<br /><a href="http://wamu.org/programs/dr/" rel="nofollow">http://wamu.org/programs/dr/</a></p> <p>=====</p> <p>and ot but related, heard on npr this morning</p> <p>numbers for pentagon fuel useage<br /> air force uses 71%</p> <p>1.5 million gallons of gas A DAY.</p> <p>bbl</p> thanks attackerman-

didn’t do all of your links yet, in and out–this article from the fdl newsbox yesterday-
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06…..ref=slogin

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In their role as advisers to the Iraqi Oil Ministry, American government lawyers and private-sector consultants provided template contracts and detailed suggestions on drafting the contracts, advisers and a senior State Department official said.

It is unclear how much influence their work had on the ministry’s decisions.

The advisers — who, along with the diplomatic official, spoke on condition of anonymity — say that their involvement was only to help an understaffed Iraqi ministry with technical and legal details of the contracts and that they in no way helped choose which companies got the deals.

-snip-

the reporter, andrew kramer was on the diane rehm show today.
http://wamu.org/programs/dr/

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and ot but related, heard on npr this morning

numbers for pentagon fuel useage
air force uses 71%

1.5 million gallons of gas A DAY.

bbl

]]> By: Jerryinexile http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/oil35companies/comment-page-1/#comment-335 Jerryinexile Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:26:45 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/01/oil35companies/#comment-335 <p>What the hell can these “Petrogiants” be thinking? Does the West (America and Great Britain primarily) think that the Mid East has forgotten the rape that began right after the World War I? To the winner goes the spoils; and they just devided spoils. It took about 50 years for some of those 1$ a barrel Sheiks and Emirs, to graduate some of their Sons and Nephews from western universities before they figured out that they were getting screwed. Do ya think that they are ready for another srewin’? What the hell could Bushco and the neocons been a thinkin’? These people are tired of gettin screwed.<br /> Southern Dragon, you got it! Those oil contracts aren’t worth a roll of asswipe.</p> What the hell can these “Petrogiants” be thinking? Does the West (America and Great Britain primarily) think that the Mid East has forgotten the rape that began right after the World War I? To the winner goes the spoils; and they just devided spoils. It took about 50 years for some of those 1$ a barrel Sheiks and Emirs, to graduate some of their Sons and Nephews from western universities before they figured out that they were getting screwed. Do ya think that they are ready for another srewin’? What the hell could Bushco and the neocons been a thinkin’? These people are tired of gettin screwed.
Southern Dragon, you got it! Those oil contracts aren’t worth a roll of asswipe.

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