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Originally Posted by crockett
He probably means the oil fields of Iraq.. When we invaded Iraq one of the first things We did was secure the oil fields and BUsh promised that Iraq's oil would pay for the war, not US tax payers.. 
Instead the oil deals were made with big oil and that was that..
Also in Afghanistan, after we placed Hamid Karzai as temporary leader prior to him being elected, president the first month he was in power he approved the gas/oil pipe line that Unicol had been trying to get a deal done for 20 something years. So to think big oil didn't have their hands in the cookie jar with these wars is a bit naive. |
I am aware that Iraq has oil fields. To my knowledge Iraq owned those oil fields prior to our invasion of Iraq and to my knowledge Iraq still owns those oil fields. To my knowledge we imported more oil from Iraq prior to our invasion then we currently import from Iraq. To my knowledge we paid for the imported oil prior to the invasion and we currently pay for the imported oil.
I am aware that the Bush administration made a statement about Iraqi oil paying for the costs of the invasion but to my knowledge the Iraqi government disagreed with this and did not pay any of the costs for the invasion.
I am aware of a gas/oil pipeline having been proposed many years ago and to the best of my knowledge it still is in the proposal stage...but the gas/oil pipeline was not running out of Afghanistan but running through Afghanistan from another country. To the best of my knowledge Afghanistan is not an exporter of gas or oil.