But I still want to know who told him…KBR or Halliburton.

We already know that BushCo’s pre-war promise that Iraq’s oil revenues would help pay for their invasion was a wingnut pipe-dream, mainly because “liberated” Iraqis started sabotaging oil pipelines, dramatically decreasing Iraq’s oil exports, with current Iraqi oil export levels still remaining below pre-war levels.

Thus, if the insane Bush and crazy Cheney order an attack on Iran with a concurrent attempt to seize Khuzestan Province, Iranians will conduct suicide missions to try to sabotage their own oil fields, oil pipelines, oil refineries and Persian Gulf oil depots, driving Khuzestan’s oil exports down to Iraqi oil export levels, which will definitely have an inflationary effect of oil prices around the world.

If we pull out of Iraq and don’t attack Iran, however, oil prices will remain the same or even decrease, since in the case of Iraq, oil exports might increase without unwelcome foreign governments or unwelcome foreign oil companies interfering with Iraq’s internal power struggle, while in the case of Iran, their oil exports will not be disrupted due to BushCo expanding their insane war in Iraq next door into Iran.

The next few months are indeed critical.

Either Bush and Cheney are impeached, stopping their warmongering, or they go ahead with their plans to attack Iran, with the horrendous result that Porter’s prediction of tripled gasoline prices in the U.S. will actually happen.

• 1 million persons killed, 1/3 of them probably children.

• Complete destruction of Koran-Torah Repository.

• National library burned down.

• National museum looted with forklifts.

• Destruction or degradation of every significant archaelogical site in Iraq.

• Committing repeated pogroms on several whole cities, such as Al-Fallujah, with refusal to give quarter, and use of banned white phosphorus as antipersonnel weapons.

• Hundreds of thousands of tons of half-strength uranium salting the ground.

• Failure to guard hundreds of thousands of tons of high-explosives, munitions, missiles, and ammunition.

• Allowing tens fo thousands of dismissed armed services to keep their AK-47s.

• Fomenting civil war by prolongued failure to rebuild basic services.

• Fomenting civil war by installing major permanent airbases and a 600-acre fortress in the heart of the country.

• Fomenting civil war by overtly controlling Iraq’s oil resources.

• Torturing and broadcasting the evidence of torture in order to terrorize the population.

• Abducting and holding hostage family members of suspected insurgents, in violation of Hague Conventions.

• Deploying tens of thousands of mercenaries — including deathsquad felons from several foreign countries — with a complete legal waiver on their actions .

And on and on.

Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

THIS IS GENOCIDE.
It is an ILLEGAL foreign policy, major warcrime, crime against humanity, and genocide. It is holocaust by every means imaginable.

I can play that game too…

The reason to go into Iraq was to control the oil. The reason to stay in Iraq is to control the oil. The risk of attacking Iraq was that oil prices would rise and supporters of GWB would make billions. The benefit of controlling the oil is that oil prices will rise, but supporters of GWB will make billions. The risk of staying out of Iraq/Iran is that the Middle East will start an oil bourse and the oil will be valued in Euros and supporters of GWB will lose billions.

Now you can argue that these were not the motives of GWB but you can’t argue the fact that big oil has made billions as a result of the actions of the last 6 years.

Very nice!

BTW, thank you Tobey for consistently injecting useful information and alternate perspective into these discussions.

Comment by pbg — August 30, 2007 @ 11:41 am

WAY too logical for the talking point-spewing neocons and their minions.

Should I “blame BushCo” too?

This Senator is blatant in his fear mongering. Disgusting little troll breeder.

And this gullible fool believed it cause it was on a general’s power point presentation.
Election 08, hurry up!

one of the most watched projects in the Caspian region. Kashagan, an offshore oil project in the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea, is the largest oil field to have been discovered anywhere in the last 30 years, with an estimated 38 billion barrels of oil.

According to the article: “With oil prices about $50 higher than when Kashagan’s first well was drilled in 2000, Kazakhstan is no longer happy with a contract that gives it just 10 percent of the project’s revenue and an 8.33 percent stake in the field through its national oil firm, KazMunaiGaz.”

Most of the revenues from oil field are going the project’s major shareholders: “Project operator Eni holds an 18.52 percent stake in Kashagan, as do ExxonMobil, Shell and Total. ConocoPhillips owns 9.26 percent and Japan’s Inpex has 8.33 percent.”

http://www.priceofoil.org/

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aP3CFLmKC2CQ&refer=worldwide

Damn I blame BushCo :)