Very many of us saw this coming as we watched Colin Powell lie the USA into a war in Iraq: China is getting the oil.
We could have just bought the oil, just as China is proving today. We need truth commissions to find out who said what when, and then prosecute these people and send them to the countries we invaded for punishment.
USA needs to get back on track and stop blaming Islam for our toleration of election fraud and third string leaders.
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“We lost out,” said Michael Makovsky, a former Defense Department official in the Bush administration who worked on Iraq oil policy. “The Chinese had nothing to do with the war, but from an economic standpoint they are benefiting from it, and our Fifth Fleet and air forces are helping to assure their supply.”
The depth of China’s commitment here is evident in details large and small.
In the desert near the Iranian border, China recently built its own airport to ferry workers to Iraq’s southern oil fields, and there are plans to begin direct flights from Beijing and Shanghai to Baghdad soon. In fancy hotels in the port city of Basra, Chinese executives impress their hosts not just by speaking Arabic, but Iraqi-accented Arabic.
Notably, what the Chinese are not doing is complaining. Unlike the executives of Western oil giants like Exxon Mobil, the Chinese happily accept the strict terms of Iraq’s oil contracts, which yield only minimal profits. China is more interested in energy to fuel its economy than profits to enrich its oil giants.
We could have just bought the oil, just as China is proving today. We need truth commissions to find out who said what when, and then prosecute these people and send them to the countries we invaded for punishment.
USA needs to get back on track and stop blaming Islam for our toleration of election fraud and third string leaders.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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