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Barrett808 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 08:18 PM Original message |
US to Take Bigger Bite of Iraq's Economic Pie (privatizing oil) |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 08:20 PM Response to Original message |
1. Hmmm.... |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 08:31 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. More like Republicanized (nt) |
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Viva_La_Revolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 08:39 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. Dominicanized..... |
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asjr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 08:21 PM Response to Original message |
2. Why am I not surprised at this? |
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agincourt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 08:23 PM Response to Original message |
3. If anybody was wondering, |
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Kimber Scott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 08:25 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Who wondered? |
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LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 02:37 AM Response to Reply #3 |
50. Exactly. Operation Iraqi Liberation. |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 03:06 PM Response to Reply #50 |
67. Wasn't that to be the orginal name of the Invasion? |
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jimshoes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 08:24 PM Response to Original message |
4. Just remember... |
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pleiku52cab (674 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
5. But , But, But, |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 08:29 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Are we still trying to win hearts and minds? |
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SariesNightly (237 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 08:35 PM Response to Reply #5 |
13. What's the word for your fellow countrymen... |
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achtung_circus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 09:23 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Quisling comes to mind. |
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cavanaghjam (355 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 08:31 PM Response to Original message |
9. Anyone remember W saying |
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Voltaire99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 06:42 AM Response to Reply #9 |
76. Nice post |
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creeksneakers2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
10. The Bush cabal tried this before |
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Barrett808 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
11. The IMF descends on Iraq |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 08:34 PM Response to Original message |
12. I'm shocked, absolutely shocked that there is gambling in this joint |
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0007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 10:13 AM Response to Reply #12 |
62. .......and pretty girls for sale......and drugs ... and all this stuff |
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Journeyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
14. And you will be free to do what we desire. . . |
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GreatAuntK (534 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 09:00 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. The Golden Straitjacket |
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bluedeminredstate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 09:03 PM Response to Original message |
17. So now that it's all out in the open, |
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not fooled (553 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 09:31 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. yeah, wouldn't you love to see the expression... |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 09:14 PM Response to Original message |
18. Invasion Capitalism.invade sell off the country as necessary privitizing' |
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cyberpj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
20. Bremer's 100 Orders, remember? |
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not fooled (553 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 09:36 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. yeah, but just remember... |
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cyberpj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 09:40 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. meanwhile... |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 09:26 AM Response to Reply #20 |
56. So the democracy bluff was just a bluff.... not cool. n/t |
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Mike C (5 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
23. Needless excitement |
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sally343434 (628 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 09:57 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Yeah, let them eat cake! |
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baby_bear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 10:41 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. Venezuela? |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 09:29 AM Response to Reply #28 |
57. He thinks like someone else who was put up on a cross. Render unto |
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Minstrel Boy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 10:50 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. Canada had PetroCanada. |
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oneighty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 11:04 PM Response to Reply #23 |
36. Time to do away with Alaska's |
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agincourt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 01:30 AM Response to Reply #23 |
47. One small problem, |
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Nite Owl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 01:39 AM Response to Reply #23 |
48. But the point is it isn't ours |
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LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 02:40 AM Response to Reply #23 |
51. In a word... |
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sharman (143 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 03:04 AM Response to Reply #51 |
53. Exactly, against international law |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 09:36 AM Response to Reply #51 |
58. I Ditto that point. My avatar has written in Power Politics what went |
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DoYouEverWonder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 10:15 AM Response to Reply #23 |
63. Shouldn't that be up to the Iraqi people |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 07:07 AM Response to Reply #23 |
77. Gosh, I'm impressed. |
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NYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
25. Cuts to social subs., billions to U.S. corporations. That sums it up. |
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Erika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 10:59 PM Response to Reply #25 |
33. America continues its imperialism |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 10:08 PM Response to Original message |
27. Motherfucking den of murderers and thieves. |
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Donailin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 11:26 PM Response to Reply #27 |
39. Someone on the same page as me. |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 11:47 PM Response to Reply #39 |
43. Likewise |
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Erika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 10:54 PM Response to Original message |
30. But the Bush chose to forgive billions of dollars of debt of Iraqis. |
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Disturbed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 10:57 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. This should be Headline in all Newspapers.. |
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NYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 11:03 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. Yes, this is the reason. |
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neweurope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 11:23 AM Response to Reply #30 |
65. Bush also demande4d Europe forgave billions of dollars. |
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Bouncy Ball (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
31. Um, I thought we were trying to make them FREE????? |
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Erika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 11:04 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. Make Iraqis free? |
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reprobate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 11:13 PM Response to Original message |
37. Dreamers. It won't happen. |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 11:30 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. Can't we just make them a state.... |
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Donailin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 11:24 PM Response to Original message |
38. not about the oil, nope |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 11:37 PM Response to Original message |
41. Doesn't sound like liberation to me. |
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Tinoire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
42. You don't say! You know they wanted to call it 'Operation Iraqi Liberati |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 12:41 AM Response to Reply #42 |
45. OIF is much better. |
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VegasWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 11:48 PM Original message |
Of course, Oil is the only reason that we are there. n/t |
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VegasWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-04 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
44. Of course, Oil is the only reason that we are there. n/t |
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NorthernSpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 12:51 AM Response to Original message |
46. idle scheming |
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gatorboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 01:45 AM Response to Original message |
49. So how is this less shitty compared to the oil for food program? |
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LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 02:58 AM Response to Reply #49 |
52. Iraqi govt stealing from their own oil (w no proof yet that they did) =BAD |
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Carl Brennan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 06:22 AM Response to Original message |
54. Let me see. We blow the shit out of a country |
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scarletlib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 08:50 AM Response to Original message |
55. call it what you will but this looks like a classic definition of |
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ally_sc (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 09:46 AM Response to Reply #55 |
59. yes theater...a puppet show and |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 10:06 AM Response to Reply #59 |
60. Shhhhhhhhhh! |
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jimshoes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 10:23 AM Response to Reply #60 |
64. So that's it |
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MisterP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 05:13 PM Response to Reply #55 |
72. it's neocolonialism: leeches are applied to the poorest countries, |
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0007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
61. Can this thievery by the U.S. get any worse? |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 03:15 PM Response to Reply #61 |
68. with a Bush in office? YES! |
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jimshoes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
66. kick |
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Been Fishing (161 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
69. Some News Items |
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arwalden (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 04:48 PM Response to Original message |
70. Ahh... The Spoils Of War... * Rewarding His Supporters |
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deacon2 (396 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 05:05 PM Response to Original message |
71. The Price of Loyalty |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
73. I feel so slimy! |
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Barkley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 06:42 PM Response to Original message |
74. Proof that this war was about oil all along. |
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termo (183 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 10:37 AM Response to Reply #74 |
79. what can be done can be undone |
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grumpy old fart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-26-04 06:48 PM Response to Original message |
75. Freedom, er, Colonialism, is on the March! n/t |
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Stuckinthebush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-04 09:16 AM Response to Original message |
78. So it was about oil afterall! |
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