Willravel

Oh it's even better. Oil demand is skyrocketing, thanks in no small part to China. The US, the only superpower, uses 20 mil barrels per day, and will need 25 mil per day in 2025. We only produce 5-6 mil, btw. The energy task force in 2001 maped all the oil fields in Iraq, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia. 60% of all the recoverable oil on the planet is in an area smaller than Kansas. We saturated Kuwait, Turkey and Saudi Arabia are kicking us out. Iraq is about to have sanctions lifte, which means that Russians and Europeans are going to be in there soon. Saddam had changed the exchange from the dollar to the euro for his oil, whihc means that the world banks would be more likely to use the euro and the dollor would plunge down all the further. So what do we do?

Iraq was the perfect target. Why would we let ourselves fall if we have the superior military? Strategic socioeconomic dominance in the ME. Privatize Iraq's oil. Haliburton, who still pays Cheny $250k a year and stock options, goes in and runs all the bases in Afghanistan and Uzbekestan, and builds Guantanamo. Betchtel rebuilds ports, roads, bridges, railroads, buildings and facilities, water, power, communications, and even aviation. The same companies that sold the weapons that destroyed Iraq are rebuilding Iraq at a premium. How does Iraq pay for all this? With their oil. Who pays for the occupation and reconstruction? The American tax payers for the next couple hundred years. A $126b surplus turns into a $500b deficit overnight. A lot of that money is going to maintaining our military presence, which means the money goes to military contractors for more supplies, vehicles, weapons, etc.

Many civilians lost their friends and loved ones, homes, and even lives. How many? No one knows. The numbers range from 43,000 to over 140,000. Those who survived and that don't have homes are living in tents. The have no access to public services like electricity, water, and fuel. Gas in Iraq has cars lined up for miles because supply is so dimished. Mind you this is Iraq, the second largest oil source in the world. People are starving to death. Disease is rampant. Homes are invaded and suspected insurgents and terrorists are taken to detention centers where they are often tortured. We know how bad Abu Ghurayb and the other detention centers are there. We've seen the pictures since May 2004. Political arrests escilate to uprisings regularly, and the longer the US forces stay the more Iraqi's (and the more of the world) belives that we are occupiers and not liberators.

The Bush administration has banned the pictures of returning GI caskets. Thousands of US and coalition forces have died.

BTW, have we found Osama yet? Have we followed the al Qaeda into Pakistan? Why are we building so many military bases in Afghanistan and Uzbekistan? Are we TRYING to start the cold war back up again? Russia isn't goiong to like us taking over the pipelines near the Caspian. Unocal can answer all this. Regean could have answered this when he trained anti-soviets that eventually tuened into the al Qaeda. Ask Bush 1 and Clinton why we supported the Taliban when they overthrew the Afghani government, with the help of Osama? It's funny that we organizaed them to destroy the red army fro controling the region, then we do it and we're suprised when they lash out at us.

Ugh, time for a rest.