wow........it WAS about oil

[ZetaNine]

BAGHDAD: Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power.

Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP — the original partners in the Iraq Petroleum Company — along with Chevron and a number of smaller oil companies, are in talks with Iraq's Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts to service Iraq's largest fields, according to ministry officials, oil company officials and an American diplomat.

The deals, expected to be announced on June 30, will lay the foundation for the first commercial work for the major companies in Iraq since the American invasion, and open a new and potentially lucrative country for their operations.

[DiabloTX]

Sounds like a win/win to me.

[ZetaNine]

Sounds like a win/win to me.

me too........I'm not complaining.

[mechanic]

you know those cool little trading games you can play, like dopewars or tradewinds or any of hte countless others where the goal is to kick everyone else in the nuts and grab as much money as possible that you can then hoard away for absolutely no apparent reason but still feel good about?
well they are based of real life.

[SD67]

You mean you actually thought it wasn't?

[AKIron]

Of course it was. Saddam didn't want Kuwait dipping into "his" oil. All down hill from there. 

[Excel1]

you know those cool little trading games you can play, like dopewars or tradewinds or any of hte countless others where the goal is to kick everyone else in the nuts and grab as much money as possible that you can then hoard away for absolutely no apparent reason but still feel good about?
well they are based of real life.

newsflash...real life existed before the the internet

[mechanic]

what the the hell are you on about excel?

[angelsandair]

 

[JB88]

what the the hell are you on about excel?

  - notice the eye twitch.

[Excel1]

what the the hell are you on about excel?

some of us don't need, or want to rely on the www to educate us on reality, political or otherwise...sort of along those lines. just thinking out loud really, which is probably why it was cryptic or nonsensical as the case may be, relative to your post. does that make sense?

jb88, you should get that seen too

[JB88]

yer probably right.

it's been here since day one, so i've gotten used to it.

  - it kinda hurts. 

[CAP1]

BAGHDAD: Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power.

Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP — the original partners in the Iraq Petroleum Company — along with Chevron and a number of smaller oil companies, are in talks with Iraq's Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts to service Iraq's largest fields, according to ministry officials, oil company officials and an American diplomat.

The deals, expected to be announced on June 30, will lay the foundation for the first commercial work for the major companies in Iraq since the American invasion, and open a new and potentially lucrative country for their operations.

now if only i could remember who i was telling this to waayy back when this all started, i could give them the ole "" i told ya so""

[storch]

when we clobber iran and get that sandbox stabilized we will have their resources returned to us as well.  maybe this time we will set up a democratic republic and not some despotic dictatorship or oligarchy and the people of that country may be able to enjoy what we in the west enjoy.

[Reschke]

Don't go there Storch. I don't think most people have thought it all out that some people around the world may not want/understand/need to be allowed free will and freedom to do whatever they think they want to do. They only need monarchy and theocracy.