Why people cannot understand this war not about oil. If USA wanted Iraq's oil this would be a so easy issue. USA can sell tin made cars and some medicines Iraq and can get Iraq's oil.

This is not an oil war. This war and probably if will Iran war is about domination. Israel has most poverfull army and one country has nuclear bombs in mediterrian-easy and they don't want to see another second...


>>Don't know if this was cited before, but have a gander at
>>http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/25/1343214
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>>I just heard her on a local TV interview and I'd say she has the whole thing pegged. And it's one very very sad story.
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>It's also a load of carp. I don't have time to pick it to pieces but here's one tidbit of wrong information:
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>...the United States is receiving a tremendous amount of oil from Iraq. Oil is down in overall export and production, but not tremendously so. We were -- at prewar was 2.5 million barrels a day. We’re now at about 2 or 2.2 million barrels a day. But 50% of that, on average, is coming to the United States...
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>According to official government energy statistics, we are nowhere near importing 50% of Iraqi oil production. More like 25%. Most Iraqi crude goes to Europe and Japan.