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Originally Posted by Ishmael
This was, is & always will be about control of oil, pure & simple. Those huge permanent bases there are to ensure that. The privatisation law will certainly pass now. So the fix is going in as we speak. We will be there as long as the oil is there & not one moment longer. We have 160,000+ troops & another 100,000+ hired mercenaries there & it's been six years of incompetence, coverups & downright corruption in the conduct of this war. With a record like that, why do you still trust these people to do anything with any degree of honesty or effectiveness? The only reason I can see for this war was to boost oil prices & that is the one thing they have succeeded in.
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Hardly. And to make matters worse, the US didn't even get any oil contracts out of it. All oil contracts went to China and India. Kind of puts a crimp in your theory.
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