What is happening to the Iraqi oil? Is bu$hco/Exxon... stealing it?

maveric

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Tue Aug-19-03 05:38 PM
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What is happening to the Iraqi oil? Is bu$hco/Exxon... stealing it?

I've read of rumors of convoys of trucks transporting millions of barrels/gallons of Iraqi oil to Saudi Arabia and then to tankers.
Is there any truth to this?
Wasn't the oils supposed to stay in Iraq to aid the Iraqi people?

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Maple

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Tue Aug-19-03 05:48 PM
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1. The only oil going anywhere

was what was in storage....none is being pumped.

Pipelines keep getting blown up

The US is now importing gasoline in Iraq...sumpthin'huh?

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maveric

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Tue Aug-19-03 05:54 PM
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2. Is Halliburton there to get the oil a pumpin again?

I'm just not exactly sure what Halliburtons role is to be.

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karlschneider

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Tue Aug-19-03 05:58 PM
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3. Well, you see, they are suckers. And the American people are too.

:eyes:

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Warpy

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Tue Aug-19-03 06:00 PM
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4. That's what I understood

Get the oil out of the ground, fix a few wires and pipes, and generally cash in. Of course, they have now found out what they've bitten off is more than even they can chew, because the oil fields were chock full of obsolete and/or broken equipment and those pipelines keep getting blown up, even when they do manage to squeeze a few drops out of the archaic, rusted machinery.

The latest estimate is that it will take 10 years to get the oilfields producing at full capacity.

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maveric

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Tue Aug-19-03 06:04 PM
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5. And Halliburton will keep getting its contract renewed?

At US taxpayers expenses.

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Maple

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Tue Aug-19-03 06:13 PM
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6. You got it.

Plus of course you'll have to pay to fix up the oilfields and pipelines and guard them.

I understand that alone is gonna cost billions...and take years.

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