do USA taked oil of irak?

[seinfeldrules]

Iraq was screwed in the oil for food program, but that is because Saddam embezzled 12 billion dollars.

 

[VirusType2]

Iraq was screwed in the oil for food program, but that is because Saddam embezzled 12 billion dollars.

yea thats what i was getting at.

like I said "I don't know much about polotics(pollotics?)- hell i can't even spell the word!"

I was just adding the little I do know

Im sorry I don't know much about politics and If the US was doing it for oil -which I highly doubt - they wouldn't let it be known.

 

[VirusType2]

The reason I don't know much about politics, but I still want to join the conversation:

I didn't watch the news on T.V. or give a shit about politics untill terrorists flew planes into the 2 tallest buildings on Earth - in my country!

From then on, I wanted to know WTF is goin on M8

And I don't like what I've learned. The world is ****ed up!

I think every adult in america changed that day and is alot more involved. I guess thats another good thing that came out of the war in Iraq - well i guess it didn't really come out of the war in Iraq but whatever.

It will never be the same again...

 

[PickledGecko]

Ah, I see. When he said "food for oil program" I thought you were talking about sanctions in general. I haven't heard much about the scandal dubbed "Oil for Food".

I won't edit my post, I may be embarrassed by my ignorance, but I wont hide from it.

BTW google oil for food, I'm not sure you completely understand it. It wasnt 'the west' it was western EUROPE as well as the UN administration.

Hmmm. Now I'm starting to see why some people are calling the whole thing a smokescreen.

An Iraq-American man has been charged with conspiracy, violating economic sanctions, acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government and income tax violations in relation to the corruption case over the UN's oil-for-food program.

Through various control mechanisms, the United States and Great Britain were able to turn on and off the flow of oil as they saw best. In this way, the Americans were able to authorise a $1bn exemption concerning the export of Iraqi oil for Jordan, as well as legitimise the billion-dollar illegal oil smuggling trade over the Turkish border, which benefited Nato ally Turkey as well as fellow regime-change plotters in Kurdistan. At the same time as US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was negotiating with Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov concerning a Russian-brokered deal to end a stand-off between Iraq and the UN weapons inspectors in October-November 1997, the United States turned a blind eye to the establishment of a Russian oil company set up on Cyprus.

This oil company, run by Primakov's sister, bought oil from Iraq under "oil for food" at a heavy discount, and then sold it at full market value to primarily US companies, splitting the difference evenly with Primakov and the Iraqis. This US-sponsored deal resulted in profits of hundreds of million of dollars for both the Russians and Iraqis, outside the control of "oil for food". It has been estimated that 80 per cent of the oil illegally smuggled out of Iraq under "oil for food" ended up in the United States.

Likewise, using its veto-wielding powers on the 661 Committee, set up in 1990 to oversee economic sanctions against Iraq, the United States was able to block billions of dollars of humanitarian goods legitimately bought by Iraq under the provisions of the oil-for-food agreement.

Seems like it was the West, not just Western Europe.

 

[jverne]

[SARCASM]I hope the US will control the iraqi oil. That way you will not advance in energy supplying thechnologies, and we here in europe will have had researched fussion power and with unlimited enegry supply, will rule the world![/SARCASM]

ahh...nevermind... :frog:

 

[ComradeBadger]

PickledGecko.. how do you explain the fact that Saddam had an exact replica of the Manhatten project building?

My source? United Nations report on weapons in Iraq - when they failed to find much but documents containing information that Saddam had bought enough VX nerve agent to gas the population of the world.

This was in 1995, and the nerve agent would have decayed by now, but that's a moot point. The point is he has expressed a desire to be a threat.

 

[PickledGecko]

No, the point is that we had him under control. He did not and would not have had a chance to re-arm. Also, to be a threat to whom? The only people he ever gassed were the Kurds and the Iranians. I fail to see how we enter into the equation.

Oh yes of course. The terrorists. The "evil" people, the people Bush would have us believe are plotting to kill our babies as we sleep at night. The people the CIA "proved" a link to Saddam by having people flown to Siria and tortured. Because we all know that when someone is tortured they tell the truth, they don't just sign any old piece of paper just to get the jumper cables off their testicals or anything. Ask any Puritan Witch Hunter and he'll tell you the same.

 

[kmack]

yes, it is true.


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