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Jan Panteltje
- Jan 1, 1970
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Awareness, bombing civilians for their resources (and control of theJan Panteltje wrote...If there is no oil export from Iraq, then WHY did they bomb the
ships in Basra yesterday?
It is the US exporting Iraq oil, the profits go into Cheneys
pockets, he pays tax, and that tax is used to buy weapons, bombs,
to drop on Iraqi civilians. [snip]
The current Iraq oil export rate is 1.6M barrels a day (most of
which leaves by ship from Basra). At $20 per barrel on-the-ship,
assuming 300 days/year, that's 9.6B per year. A short time ago
congress approved $87B to pay for added costs and reconstruction
in Iraq, and that was the 2nd large budget outlay. So clearly
oil $$, even assuming we kept any of it, wouldn't pay the bill.
When the $87B was argued, some in congress said we should keep
the oil money in partial repayment, but the administration said
this would send a wrong signal and that idea was dropped. After
all, at only about 10%, why make an ugly issue?
regio) IS ugly.