T. Boone Pickens confirms Iraq War for OIL

[yurbud]

Essentially, Pickens is saying America can only get a piece of Iraq's oil if we have a gun in their face.

There are a couple of problems with that calculus though.

First, even if American oil companies get oil concessions in Iraq, there is no guarantee that means they will sell it to American citizens for less, or reward us for the sacrifices of tax dollars and our troops lives that it took to get those contracts.

And while we are rightly focused on the thousands of our troops who have died, the Iraqis might be thinking more about the over one million Iraqis killed, with every other family having lost at least one member.

The other thing to note is that China and other countries were somehow able to negotiate contracts with Iraq without invading or occupying the country. Could it be that one way to negotiate is to offer more favorable terms than you competitors instead putting a gun in the face of the people you're negotiating with?

http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2009/10/t-boone-pickens-confirms-iraq-war-for.html">FULL TEXT

[cherokeeprogressive]

1. Anyone who didn't know that 5 years ago, and needs THIS for confirmation is um, well,

behind the curve by about fifty hundred thousand years.

[yurbud]

5. and yet when does the mainstream media and even most progressive pundits EVER discuss this?

[JI7]

2. and some propped him up as some kind of environmentalist

hahahah fucking piece of shit.

[yurbud]

8. he is either an environmentalist because he smells a dollar others are stepping over or

it's just PR.

[Dover]

3. Probably multiple reasons for invasion (not a war) -

There is the issue of Sadam threatening to unlink the dollar from oil by introducing other currencies.
Then there was the issue of pipelines, Iran, control of water, and creating an American presence in the region.
It's all resource and security related. And it's for similar reasons we are in Afghanistan....the Silk Road policy being the best reading on our interests in the region. The human rights issues are
always way down on the list of priorities...

[yurbud]

6. human rights are way down the list of real reasons (like last), but number 3 or 4 of fake ones

[aquart]

4. Guess what? Afghanistan is also an oil war.

[yurbud]

7. yep--the poppy income doesn't hurt either when Wall Street needs to cook the books a bit

[jgraz]

9. Let's be precise: The Iraq War was for Rich People

Oil was just the delivery medium.

[yurbud]

10. yep