On August 29, 2005, 8:46 pm aDCBeast@18867 said :

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.

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There are many things wrong with your post and it is probably a waste of time to iterate the errors but just for fun I will try....

Most of the world's purchase orders for oil & LNG are placed in London which is the world hub for these things. Makes sense as most Arab sheikhs have second homes in London and get their medical care there as well as educate their children. Speculators on Wall Street in many cases are foreign entities such as HSBC (Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Company), large global conglomerates, people like George Soros (the patron saint of the Democratic Party who is Hungarian, I believe) and others. These speculators are immune from American politics by and large and don't give a rat's ass who is president.

The Iraqi government has invited many global oil companies to submit proposals....that is all they are, proposals....to develop Iraqi oil fields. Most people think that the winner will be French or Italian. Chevron/Unocal was INVITED by Iraq to submit a proposal along with Royal Dutch Shell, Total, Fina, BP and others. Why would they decline this invitation? Because YOU disapprove?

Americans are raping what 3rd world country of its land and natural resources without paying for them? This is a deliberately murky and muddled accusation without any specifics. What country? What land? What resources? Didn't pay? And your evidence is? No Urban Legends please, we are grownups here.

As for explaining to an American soldier (know any personally? I sure do...the Georgia 48th Brigade is over there now. Three of my buddies are in the 48th) how he could be facing an ally now and fighting him in 5 to 10 years...uh, the Russians were our allies in WWII...we gave them thousands of tanks, trucks, planes, howitizers, etc. costing the American taxpayer billions not to mention all the thousands of men who died in ships sunk by U-Boats...and almost immediately they became our enemy....the Berlin Airlift was in 1948, just three years after the end of the war. We have been there before and will be again. It is the nature of things. The British burned the White House in 1812 and the French were our allies. Just the nature of things.