Every wonder why the Arab world hates us?

[serryjw]

Now we get to the BIGGEST rip-of in the history of civilization. WE paid $250 BILLION (and growing) to FREE the Iraqis and The OIL companies will benefit from it.....so the Iraqis get screwed and so does the citizens of this country. Every wonder why the Arab world hates us?

quote........
Up to 194 billion dollars in Iraqi oil revenues are going to multinational oil companies under long-term contracts, and not to the Iraqi people, a social and environmental group alleged Tuesday.


In a report, the group known as Platform said that oil multinationals would be paid between 74 billion dollars and 194 billion dollars with rates of return of between 42.0 percent and 162.0 percent under proposed production-sharing agreements, or PSAs.


"The form of contracts being promoted is the most expensive and undemocratic option available," said Platform researcher Greg Muttitt.
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http://www.energybulletin.net/11107.html


Crude Designs - The rip-off of Iraq's Oil Wealth

Read the executive summary!

http://www.carbonweb.org/crudedesigns.htm

[leftstreet]

1. Disgusting

[Maggie_May]

2. Whats really sad

is that the war will never end if we control the oil. They will keep blowing up the pipe lines we will have to put American bases in Iraq to keep control of the oil. Then they will keep targeting our guys.
Who blames them the US is trying to control their wealth? I guess the isue is control.

[PDJane]

3. Never wondered why.......

Frankly, it seems much too obvious. First Spain, then France, England, and now the US......no. I understand perfectly why the countries of the middle east feel that the west is the enemy.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Guess my protest sign from 2003 was right..."Let Exxon, Conco,and

Philips fight their own war" as correct!

[Jara sang]

5. Texas petrodollars have been running this country since the 1930s.

[G2099]

6. Iraq war was about oil, profits and plunder

Louise Richards, chief executive of aid charity War on Want, said: "People have increasingly come to realise that the Iraq war was about oil, profits and plunder."

"Iraq's oil profits, far from being used to alleviate some of the suffering the Iraqi people now face, are well within the sights of the oil multinationals."

http://www.energybulletin.net/11107.html

[TexasLawyer]

7. This rip-off is just ONE of the reasons

I'm sure that killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans, and displacing untold numbers with war and chaos may also play a part in the hatred.

[abluelady]

8. I Don't Believe they Hate "Us"

They emulate us. They wear our jeans, they want our life style, they come to America for a better life. Moron's sound bites make it seem like they hate us. And where we interfere in their countries America is hated, but I don't believe they hate Americans overall. It is a sterotype the administration is trying to sell.