Blood for Oil in Iraq

You're paying less for gasoline than anywhere else in the first world.
The money spent in Iraq far outweighs the value of any oil that's been "stolen". Is there a secret pipline running from Iraq to Halliburton? No. Iraq's oil is being sold, not stolen.

Wouldn't it have been a lot cheaper, in reality, to simply take the money spent on and in Iraq and subsidize gas in America? I guess the real problem with that is people like you can't run around screaming the buzz phrase "Blood for oil!". Oh the horror.

Costa Rica -- you got to be fucking kidding me. If not for the US and Ronald Regan Ortega and the Sandinistas would have come down from Nicaragua and taken over your third world ass!

First off I'm Canadian I just live in Costa Rica.

Second off, Costa Rica has enjoyed a defense pact with the United States since long before Regan was in power. This is why it's the Jewel of Central America. No army has allowed this country to develop a public health care and education system. Out of curiousity, what's the state of your public health and education systems?

Please try and have some idea what you're talking about, people will be more inclined to listen.

This is right wing sheep bullshit your paying less then everyone else so its ok or I like the inflation one myself. Forget about the oil companies making record profits and when clinton was president I paid 69 fucking cents for a gallon for of gas.

Interestingly enough, gas prices keep raising all around the world. I suppose this is all Bush's fault?

The oil companies are making record profits and the country is now run by oil men hmmmmm

So you honestly believe that if you could re-elect Clinton today that gas prices would plummet? China would stop it's record consumption? Hurricanes would stop hitting the Gulf of Mexico? Refineries would magically appear and increase capacity?

How come gas keeps getting more and more expensive in say Canada, where we have never had a Bush as Prime Minister?

Oil companies making record profits? Do you understand the concept of supply and demand at all?

Banks make record profits each year, and yet their service charges go up as well. It this all Bush's fault too?

You want to believe that the only reason gas prices are on the rise is because Bush is in office and not Clinton? And you think I'm the sheep?

Really? Gas was $1.84 the day Clinton left office.
I remember gas was 32 cents a gallon when Nixon was president. What is your point?

blood for oil my ass, why the fuck is everyone moaning about prices if the US has stolen loads of oil, dickbrain

stop callin it gas.....

You know what else has gone up in price since Clinton left office? A gallon of milk.

Time to invade Alberta and trade some blood for dairy.

ahahah, a galllon of cum is expensive now as well

most people don't have a problem with letting somebody they don't know die so that they can have cheap gasoline

Oh... I see your Canadian... Now it all makes sense... It always helps to know who your dealing with...

ok petro

Just look at the numbers. They speak for themselves.

Approved For The Hurricane Disaster so far $10 Billion and for Iraq >

Spent & approved to spend in Iraq $300 billion of US taxpayers' money

Lost & Unaccounted for in Iraq $9 billion of US taxpayers' money

Halliburton Overcharges Publicly Known to be Hidden by the Pentagon from Auditors $108 million

Troops Total 161,500, including 138,500 from the US, 8,000 from the UK, and 15,000 from all other nations (other than Iraq)

US Troop Casualities 1,869 US troops; 98% male. 90% non-officers; 76% active duty, 14% National Guard; 73% white, 11% African-American, 11% Latino. 35% killed by unidentified causes; 19% killed by non-hostile causes.

Non-US Troop Casualties Total 194, with 93 from the UK.

US Troops Wounded 14,021

Iraqi Military and Police Casualties 2,945

Iraqi Civilians Killed, Estimated 32,300 to 65,800

Iraqi Insurgents Killed, Estimated 45,470

Non-Iraqi Contractors Killed 300

Non-Iraqi Kidnapped 228, including 41 killed, 113 released, 3 escaped, 3 rescued and 68 status unknown.

US Military Helicopters Downed in Iraq 39

Estimated insurgents, June 2003 5,000

Estimated insurgents, July 2005 20,000, including 1,000 foreign nationals

Daily insurgent attacks, Feb 2004 14

Daily insurgent attacks, July 2005 70

Trained Iraqi Troops Needed by July 2006 272,600

Trained Iraqi Troops, Per the Pentagon 179,900

Trained Iraqi Troops, Per General Richard Meyers in March 2005 40,000

Trained Iraqi Troops, Per US Senator Joseph Biden in March 2005 4,000 to 18,000

Trained Iraqi Troops, Per US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad in August 2005 {/b} "Not very large."

Iraqi Unemployment Rate 27 to 40%

Average Hours Iraqi Homes Have electricity 11

Length of Gasoline Lines 1 mile

Inflation 11.4% in February 2005

Children Enrolled in Primary School 2000, 3.6 million; 2004, 4.3 million

Telephone Subscribers pre-war, 833,000; August 2005, 3.9 million

And the one to make all US taxpayers gasp: World Bank and CPA Estimate of Iraq Reconstruction Needs $55,259,000,000

Stop using oil and stick it to Bush and his cronies. As long as you consume oil you are part of the problem.