It’s All About the Oiiiiillll!!! Wait…

Remember that clichéd argument the left trotted out when we invaded Afghanistan, and the Iraq? It turned out there were no real plans to build an oil pipeline in Afghanistan as they claimed. See, Afghanistan is mountainous and that would make it insanely unpractical. That and the fact that all the tribes there have been warring amongst themselves for hundreds of years, making it unstable with or without the Taliban. But hey, logic is not a friend of the left, it seems.

Now another one of their tired arguments is brutally shot down.

Despite claims by some critics that the Bush administration invaded Iraq to take control of its oil, the first contracts with major oil firms from Iraq’s new government are likely to go not to U.S. companies, but rather to companies from China, India, Vietnam, and Indonesia.

Oops!

Oh, wait, here’s a factoid for you to chew on.

Rosy estimates even have Iraq producing 6 million barrels a day in the long term, which would make it the world’s No. 4 producer behind Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United States.

Yes, we produce more oil than Iraq or Iran or a lot of other Arab nations. We produce more oil that our largest oil seller, Canada. More than Mexico and Venezuela.  We’re number 3. and most of what we import comes from the Western Hemisphere.

Naturally, the left wants to believe that anything the US does is evil, therefore we invade countries to steal their resources and kill civilians. Cause that’s how we roll, baby!

The facts are not on their side however. They rarely are. Which is why I am not a leftie. 

There is a pretty major quote in there that both you and the Jawa report left out:

“Giving out a few crumbs to the Chinese and Indians is one thing,” said Kretzmann, who noted the draft law was seen by both the Bush administration and the International Monetary Fund before it was given to Iraq’s parliament. “But the real prize are the contracts that award long-term rights. I think the [Western oil companies] are biding their time.”

That said.  I think people have this idea in their head that multi-national corperations are all American and forget what the name multi-national means.  Exxon, BP, Viacom, Cocoa Cola aren’t in the business to make America rich, they are in the business to make themselves rich.  People get mad when the multi-natioal companies move workfoce into other countries, but never realize that these huge organizations are above national and economic boarders.

Posted by  on  04/06  at  04:49 AM

You’re right. Plus many of the big oil companies are based in other countries like the Netherlands or the UK. Theres’ this rather lame notion some people have that oil companies are these evil American enterprises. As you say, multi-nationals are beyond that. This isn’t the 1950s.

However, the particle shows that we’re being lawful and not jsut taking the oil for ourselves. Which is what many people thought we were doing. For one thing, Iraq cost WAY too much to be profitable if we went there for the oil. It would probably take 100 years for its oil to pay for the war.

Posted by James Hudnall  on  04/06  at  09:08 AM
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