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Why Rick, are you suggesting we should take their oil?

BOMB THE UN!

Robby that would take out a good portion of New York City.. I say we just turn the property back into a brewery and make a dark stout and call it UN Pale Ale

Cavallo

OPEC is nothing more then a bunch of camel jockey's who if they didn't have oil on their property, would still be carrying spices to the orient.

the only people that benifit from the value of having oil are the "princes" and the "shieks" and most of the older guys will remember that shieks were a brand name for condums when they were called rubbers.

when britan tuned the desert into little fiefdoms and appointed people kings or whatever they called them at the time they should have kept the mineral rights.

there is some arab honcho with so much money he has vcr's taping every station he can get with his satelite
dish, 24 hours a day seven days a week. he has a staff that files the tapes in some kind of order. why? because he can afford to.

these are the real terrorists. the people they "rule" get squat from the countries riches and are taught to hate us instead of the bastards that rule them and keep them in poverty.

as i recall usa companies drilled the wells and were "nationalized" by the individual gangsters. as much as i hate major companies that nothing more then a bottom line mentality, which is used to provide the ceo's extra ordinary salaries and bonuses, instead of being distributed to the stock holders who actually own the companies, we as a country should not have allowed the theft of equipment and oil by the "rulers" of the arab nations.

if we can't even insist that iraq pay it's own way for their rebuilding with the profits from oil money that used to go to sadam and now goes into swiss banks for some future dictator, more then likely some religious leader, to abscond with, we, the usa, are oil whipped.

all this crap results in gas costing us $2.50 a gallon and rising, and that pisses me off.

Rick,

"we as a country should not have allowed the theft of equipment and oil by the rulers of the arab nations"

Are you suggesting we should have had a military intervention in the Middle East many years ago when our oil companies had their assets nationalized by various Arab countries but yet we shouldn't be in Iraq now? John Kerry really is the perfect presidential candidate for you!

The fund where all this money is being deposited is actually at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. The fund is controlled by the Coalition Provisional Authority headed by US Ambassador Paul Bremer, the Iraqi Governing Council, the Iraqi Minister of Finance, and the Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq.

According to the Coalition Provisional Authority website, the fund has been used to pay for the wheat purchase program, the currency exchange program, the electricity and oil infrastructure programs, equipment for Iraqis security forces, and for Iraqi civil service salaries and ministry budget operations.

This money is being used by Iraq to rebuild Iraq and administered by the coalition. It is kinda like the UN administered "Oil for Food" program except the millions of dollars in bribes scattered throughout the UN no longer exist.

By the way, gas prices at $2.50 a gallon are just a figment of your imagination. The US just conducted a successful "War for Oil" in Iraq and gas prices are now just under $1 a gallon. Humm, looks like that whole war for oil theory is falling down.

428cj

i think of the guys that flew the planes into the WTC and the kids that wear the sucide belts to become martyrs as the soldiers inspired by the true terrorists who use these people and convince them they will enter heaven to be greeted by 72 virgins. the only religeon that promises to get you laid if you die for the cause.

I was out the other night and chose not to drink, I had a Virgin Mary instead. When I was done, the waitron asked if I wanted another and I replied, "I've just converted to Islam, bring me 71 more..."

428cj

without equivocation

ter·ror·ism (tµr“…-r¹z”…m) n. The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.

the odd thing about the culture there is i suspect they can be taught to hate and die for any reason. they have held japanese people hostage also.

i think the threat we face is the indoctrination by their leaders to hate. each group hates the other groups and collectivly they all have been taught to hate us. the underclass lead lives of desperation, with no better future available to them. add to that, the great reward that awaits them, they become easy prey to become martyrs. how else do the hamas convince children 12 years old to kill themselves in the name of allah.

"Their religion can be twisted towards violence", sort of like the cursades? carefull, before you answer to quickly.