Max, the difference between you and geggy is that you answer questions asked directly of you. And here you are answering my questions to
him. That's the difference. Geggy says something, then people respond, and then Geggy responds with something that had nothing to do with it to begin with. That's only slightly better than Joe Bialek, who just masturbates all over the internet without answering for any of his ideas. So, until I see improvement, I will continue to make fun of the crazy things Geggy says (and hello, don't you have two friggin sticky threads for people who say crazy things here? What makes Geggy any different?)
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Originally Posted by mburbank
"why hasn't Iraq been rebuilt from Iraqi oil revenue, as had been promised by President Bush? If we're controling the oil, why hasn't this happened?"
The administration is incompetent. Their aim was too control the oil, they honestly thought they could, but they suck at actually accomplishing anything. I'm not saying that's the case, I'm just saying it's a perfectly plausible scenario.
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This is absurd. What prevents us from taking the oil, other than the political pressure we would face were we to truly do it?
I hate, hate, HATE the oil argument. France, Germany, and Russia all had oil deals with Iraq prior to the invasion. Does that mean that all of their concerns over this war were simply based off of money? I don't believe that, and I don't believe the reverse to be true of us. Did oil play a part in it? Of course. But I think it was more so a sloppy calculation that we would subdue the country, establish a government, rebuild off of oil revenue, and set up a free Iraq with a good economy (and then look at how great we are, we did exactly what we said we'd do in a month's time).
Do I believe though that it's some "PNAC" plot to rule the world's oil? No.
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"Geggy, why has Sen. Biden been allowed to introduce an amendement to H.R. 4939 that would prevent the U.S. from having any direct control over Iraq's oil? Why hasn't he been killed by a black chopper yet?"
Who needs Black Helicopters when you have signing statements? The administration is on record as seeing congress as irrelivant. And why killl disenters when you can use them to paint the rest of their party as soft on terrorism?
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This is why Democrats need to take the House, start investigations and hearings, and hold this president accountable.
But back to the point-- Are we controlling all of the oil? There are many, many people in our government who believe we absolutely shouldn't do that. There is disagreement on the issue, and if Bush
did try to control all of the oil, there would be protest over it.
Again, no conspiracy. No secret room of neo-cons planning underwater tunnels of oil to cross the Atlantic and pour into the U.$.
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You shouldn't assume that just 'cause geggy says something that automatically causes it to be crazy.
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He hasn't proven me wrong yet.