This is pathetic! How low will these socialist libtards go to try and justify their hatred for America?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...n-oil-firms-and-invasion-of-iraq-2269610.html
But documents from October and November the previous year paint a very different picture.
Five months before the March 2003 invasion, Baroness Symons, then the Trade Minister, told BP that the Government believed British energy firms should be given a share of Iraq's enormous oil and gas reserves as a reward for Tony Blair's military commitment to US plans for regime change.
The papers show that Lady Symons agreed to lobby the Bush administration on BP's behalf because the oil giant feared it was being "locked out" of deals that Washington was quietly striking with US, French and Russian governments and their energy firms.
Minutes of a meeting with BP, Shell and BG (formerly British Gas) on 31 October 2002 read: "Baroness Symons agreed that it would be difficult to justify British companies losing out in Iraq in that way if the UK had itself been a conspicuous supporter of the US government throughout the crisis."
The minister then promised to "report back to the companies before Christmas" on her lobbying efforts.
The Foreign Office invited BP in on 6 November 2002 to talk about opportunities in Iraq "post regime change". Its minutes state: "Iraq is the big oil prospect. BP is desperate to get in there and anxious that political deals should not deny them the opportunity."
After another meeting, this one in October 2002, the Foreign Office's Middle East director at the time, Edward Chaplin, noted: "Shell and BP could not afford not to have a stake in [Iraq] for the sake of their long-term future... We were determined to get a fair slice of the action for UK companies in a post-Saddam Iraq."
Whereas BP was insisting in public that it had "no strategic interest" in Iraq, in private it told the Foreign Office that Iraq was "more important than anything we've seen for a long time".
BP was concerned that if Washington allowed TotalFinaElf's existing contact with Saddam Hussein to stand after the invasion it would make the French conglomerate the world's leading oil company. BP told the Government it was willing to take "big risks" to get a share of the Iraqi reserves, the second largest in the world.
You used a British news source. Why do you hate America?
Then where is the oil? Where are the spoils from our plundering!
Gas at 4. Thanks to Obama. Where's the oil?
The big oil companies already signed off on the fields, this happened about 2 years ago. This is why the troops are being hustled elsewhere for the imperialists. Job finished.
Really? Who got the contracts for the Iraq fields? Please elaborate and provide some actual details instead of making some vague comment.The big oil companies already signed off on the fields, this happened about 2 years ago. This is why the troops are being hustled elsewhere for the imperialists. Job finished.
The big oil companies already signed off on the fields, this happened about 2 years ago. This is why the troops are being hustled elsewhere for the imperialists. Job finished.
Can't wait to hear how you dance around this.
Dude. Don't make it easy for her. Let her stab herself repeatedly first with her ideological dagger before posting anything like that.
Dude. Don't make it easy for him. Let him stab himself repeatedly first with his ideological dagger before posting anything like that.
It's OK. Few in here take steeplerot seriously. It's always fun to watch her screw up the lacing of her jackboots though.Sorry. =(
It's OK. Few in here take steeplerot seriously. It's always fun to watch her screw up the lacing of her jackboots though.
It's a drilling project, moron, not an oil ownership. Try again.You guys believe that shit? While back in the real world: March 28, 2011
Exxon Mobil's partners in the project include two Iraqi state-owned companies and an affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell PLC. The field's lead contractor, with a 60 percent interest, is ExxonMobil Iraq. More than 1,600 Iraqis are working at the 8.6 billion barrel field, one of Iraq's largest.
Under an agreement between Iraq and the companies, production from the West Qurna I field should reach 2.825 million barrels a day after 6 to 7 years.
Shares of Exxon Mobil rose 12 cents to $83.74 in midday trading.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9M8CF9G0.htm
Clueless fools. Of course the imperialists got their oil, you think they pulled the country out of a hat to invade? There are plenty of dictators out there. And sure, we chose Libya also out of a hat.
I got one Brooklyn bridge.. going cheap!
It's a drilling project
your obama is a oil wolf.
Except US companies haven't been awarded the actual oil production contracts.No shit, Iraqis oil infrastructure has been crap since the I-I war in the 80s. The point of the war is to rebuild the infrastructure for us. And of course make some bank for cheneys buddies fixing what we blew up.
Quite transparent if you follow the money and look at the status quo of our foreign policy. Same shit.
iow, we receive no special treatment or price advantage by invading Iraq. So stuff those bullshit claims where your idiotic ideologies reside.
Keep telling yourself that while the facts show otherwise. Repeating a mantra doesn't make it true. It just makes you look like a fool stuck in the talking points of 2003.Reality is USA companies ARE the ones running it. The devil is in the details of course you wish to ignore to keep living this "USA are on a righteous crusade!" conspiracy shit from 2003.