(May 13, 2015 at 5:48 pm)AFTT47 Wrote:(May 13, 2015 at 4:54 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Who is "we?"
Surely you don't think that "WE" gain anything from this?
Meanwhile, the fucking oil companies are cleaning up.
I guess I misspoke. Please show me where the oil companies (oil companies that matter to TBTB in the the USA) are benefiting.
You're kidding, right?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/19/opinion/ir...il-juhasz/
Quote:Yes, the Iraq War was a war for oil, and it was a war with winners: Big Oil.
It has been 10 years since Operation Iraqi Freedom's bombs first landed in Baghdad. And while most of the U.S.-led coalition forces have long since gone, Western oil companies are only getting started.
Before the 2003 invasion, Iraq's domestic oil industry was fully nationalized and closed to Western oil companies. A decade of war later, it is largely privatized and utterly dominated by foreign firms.
From ExxonMobil and Chevron to BP and Shell, the West's largest oil companies have set up shop in Iraq. So have a slew of American oil service companies, including Halliburton, the Texas-based firm Dick Cheney ran before becoming George W. Bush's running mate in 2000.
