I am not denying that oil is an important political factor, it is. However, I just disagree with the way people use this fact as a means to attempt at scoring political one upsmanship.

As for the case of Halliburton pumping oil in Iraq, I haven’t heard that one before. I will look more into that. I was told that none of Iraq’s oil reserves have been tapped into, yet. However, I do not see Halliburton being the ones doing the tapping when the first barrels get pumped. As they have left their operations in Iraq. Although Black Water and Kellog Brown and Root are still there, but they are only subsidiaries of Halliburton. They are not a part of the company, they are independent and I am sure they hold their own stock as proof of their seperation from Halliburton.

However, I do see China, India, and Russia tapping into Iraq’s oil reserves first before everyone else. After all, they are the ones with the highest increase in oil consumption in the world today(I am not saying this is a bad thing), and are owners of Iraq’s oil reserve contracts. Some of their contracts with Persian Gulf countries are already going to work, as some the oil they consume is being pumped off the coast of Iraq.

However, I am not too sure if Iraq is the owner of that oil rig. It may belong to another Persian Gulf country. It may belong to Azerbaijan, unless they don’t export oil, or it could belong to Bahrain. Maybe Kuwait or Iran. If you know anything on this, tell me.

Like it or not, that amount ultimately leads to less than one percent of our G.D.P.(Gross Domestc Product)/Purchasing Power Parity.

At the same time, Osama didn’t seem like he was laughing when we intercepted those letters that were circulating throughout his inner circle and his operatives on the ground. He seemed pretty pissed. They all said that the Jihad in Iraq has been a failure.

Which is funny, because that’s the opposite of what our government is telling us. So much for your stupid “you actually believe what your government says” comment.

Again, you post another comment that is just oozing of ignorance. First off, the United States is not seeking control of oil fields or revenues in Iraq. It doesn’t take a genius to simply go online to judicial watch’s website to see who owns the oil fields in Iraq and ultimately the revenues. They have maps as well as a list of countries who own the contracts to the oil fields in Iraq. It just makes me sick that you don’t have the balls to go do the research yourself before making an asinine comment. Then again, I understand, you must have an intense fear of finding out that you’re wrong. Which you are!

In the event you become sane and decide that the lies you subscribe to, which ultimately own you as well, are not worth looking like a idiot for, then you’ll see when you actually search Judicial Watch’s oil maps and list of contract holders that not one of the oil fields in Iraq are under any; contract, or ownership by any U.S. business firm. In fact, all of them belong to the countries that oppose our presence there. Isn’t that just paradoxically strange? The people who keep saying that we are in Iraq for oil as a means to justify their stance against us, are actually the ones who own Iraq’s oil fields as well as want us out. Who can blame them though?

Since, if we were to leave Iraq, the increase of violence that would add to the already tragic sectarian war in that country would help boost another increase to the price of oil. Thus, increasing the profit of those countries who “DO” own the contracts to Iraq’s oil fields. So much for the “were stealing Iraq’s oil” mantra. That fallacy can finally take it’s place with all the other disproven myths that anti-military Americans(conservatative and liberal) buy into, as one of the stupidest arguments to ever take place in a political debate.

Anyway, here is the web URL to the lists with foreign suitors who have ownership of oil reserves in Iraq that I have been talking about.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/oil-field-maps

CJ, why is there two %u2026′s on my post. I didn’t type those. All I did was post Morton’s comment by copy and pasting before replying to them. Anyway, can you remove them, they’re kind of distracting.