(October 4, 2012 at 4:13 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: ähhh american oil companies did get contracts in Irak, but not most of them. actualy their share isn`t as big considering the fact that they invaded them.
the contracts for the five biggest oil fields went to:
Dutch Shell, Chinese National Petroleom Corporation, Malaya Petronas, Norway Statoil, Russia Lukoil, Italian Eni, Exxon Mobil, Haliburton and BP.
The real winner of the third gulf war was Iran, wich now has a shia ally in the region.
so eaven if the US-Bush,Chenney administration wanted oil - they eaven failed at that.
Yes, and they failed at it by not simply taking control of the region as a US territory.
You've cited a perfect example of invading without annexing, and you'll notice they've been entrenched in an impossible guerilla war since?
We've the most powerful military in the world, and we spend the most in the world on maintaining it and making it even stronger... So why not use the damn thing properly? It's too large to be of particular use in defense (waste of resources, inefficient), and it's large enough to at the very least take and hold Canada
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
