Decatur_Tater@67139

Speculators on Wall Street are what has driven the price of crude oil and subsequently gas. They have bet that the Iraq invasion has and will disrupt the world crude oil supply. And it has so far. World usage has not risen 2 fold since March 2003 to warrant a double in price.

Chevron/Unocal is an oil company and they're licking their chops trying to figure out how to set themselves up as the Iraqs main oil company. Drilling and refining.

Of course this is the very practice that brought on 9/11. American companies raping the 3rd world's land and people of it's natural resources without paying for them.

The danger in the near future is that the Shia in the south of Iraq, where the second largest oil fields in the world are, should come under Iranian control. How could this be ? As Iraq heads toward civil war, iranian clerics (who lead iraqi shia) will push for the shia in the south to be annexed to Iran giving Iran a massive income jolt. And a massive security threat to everyone on the world.

If Iraq has a civil war the US will have to sit on the sidelines because their enemy would be the shia (currently our friends) and our friends would be the sunnis (currently Iraqi freedom fighters) who we are killing to make way for Chevron/Unocal.

Try explaining to a soldier doing a tour in Iraq now how he could be fighting side by side with his current enemy in 5 to 10 years. It might make him question what he is doing now.