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Mosby

(16,310 posts)

11. The oil wasn't stolen.

Reply to Botany (Reply #6)

Wed May 24, 2017, 05:02 PM

May 2017

The Iraqi oil market was opened up to foreign investment. So what.

The west, in particular the EU, has been getting fucked by the oil producers since the early 1970s.

It pretty much started in 1973.

Wonder why?

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Just remember ISIS is the result of w & Cheney's war for oil in Iraq. [View all] Botany May 2017 OP

No question in my mind. Sadam was a tyrant, but he kept relative peace. 700,000 Christians lived Hoyt May 2017 #1

In late Feb./early March I was westbound on Morse Rd. in Columbus, OH going under I 71 .... Botany May 2017 #4

My late wife used to work for some Iraqi engineers livin here. She called them after bush's invasion Hoyt May 2017 #8

Rightwingers all over the web insist President Obama created and funded ISIS. Blue_true May 2017 #2

Yep, Bremer fire all the generals and colonels in the Iraqi army... brush May 2017 #3

What does oil have to do with it? Mosby May 2017 #5

Care to prove that? Sure thing .... Botany May 2017 #6

The oil wasn't stolen. Mosby May 2017 #11

"The oil wasn't stolen." Botany May 2017 #12

Or maybe the US military is just incompetent Mosby May 2017 #14

Oh please ..... way to change the subject Botany May 2017 #15

Isis is Saddam's well-planned revenge.... blitzen May 2017 #7

Totally colsohlibgal May 2017 #9

Didn't Rand Paul also say the same NewJeffCT May 2017 #10

Reminds me of this toon AJH032 May 2017 #13