Now we know why Russia didn't want us in Iraq!!

[Laz]

Read this like I did and my blood begins to boil. Can't wait to see what we find out about France!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,84102,00.html

 

[Mermaid02]

I heard that last night- is anyone REALLY surprised though? I'm not. Angry, but not surprised.

 

[Keli]

I'm not really surprised by this either. I think that the whole picture between russia and iraq will be rather complicated though, I don't think they trusted each other either.

 

[nativetxn]

Not surprised, well...maybe a little surprised that they actually kept records of this stuff. I thought they were more clever, glad I was wrong about that.

 

[cinmell]

No surprise here .

 

[WillyJ]

Could be true, but there's been lot's of misinformation and rumors put out lately by the media so who knows?

One intersting fact that isn't rumor . . . which country has bought the majority of Saddam's oil the past few years, right up to December of this past year and helped circumvent the UN sanctions and put millions of dollars in Saddam's pocket through kick-backs?


Yep. . us, the USA. . and with the Bush Administrations approval. . I find that way more offensive then anything Russia did or didn't do.


By the way. . where are those Weapons of Mass Destruction attacks on our troops everyone slammed me for saying they weren't there or would be used? Our troops have checked the top 10 places Powell swore to the UN we knew they were located and they found zip. . . nada. . nothing. .


I'll say it again- bush is a liar and he never would have put our troops in the position of sitting in Kuwait for 48 hours if he really thought WMDs were a possibility. . but hey- go ahead and keep believing what the government tells ya. . it's not liek they'd ever lie to us, right?

 

[glo]

January 2003 Import Highlights: Released on March 21, 2003

Monthly data on the origins of U.S. crude oil imports in January 2003 has been released and it shows that three countries each exported more than 1.5 million barrels per day of crude oil to the United States (see table below). The top sources of U.S. crude oil imports in January 2003 were: Saudi Arabia (1.820 )million
barrels per day), Canada (1.621 million barrels per day), and Mexico (1.566 million barrels per day). This is the largest monthly amount of crude oil imported from Saudi Arabia since August 2001.

Rounding out the top ten sources, in order, were
Nigeria (0.798 million barrels per day), Iraq (0.600 million barrels per day), United Kingdom (0.411 million barrels per day), Venezuela (0.399 million barrels per day), Angola (0.245 million barrels per day), Kuwait (0.134 million barrels per day), and Colombia (0.120 million barrels per day). Imports from Venezuela were at their lowest level since February 1989, as Venezuelan exports were severely curtailed for much of the month following the general strike in that country.

Total crude oil imports averaged 8.547 million barrels per day in January, a decline of nearly 100,000 barrels per day from December, and represents the lowest level since February 2000. The top three origins accounted for nearly 59 percent of these
U.S.crude oil imports in January, while the top ten sources accounted for 90 percent of all U.S. crude oil imports.

 

[Laz]

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but haven't we bought Iraqi oil via a 3rd country (ie Syria) for some years. It is put on the open market and countries like Syria are middlemen in the process, collecting an extra fee.

"Where are the wmd?" Sounds like the media. They always have to focus on the negative. Trying to find some way to discredit anything Bush does. Never mind that Saddam jailed children for years for not joining the youth movement. Never mind that he tortured, raped, and killed thousands of his own citizens. Never mind that he lived in luxury while his people starved. Never mind that he invaded his nieghbors. We shouldn't have minded Hitler either. After all, he did all these same things yet he never actually attacked us (Japan did). We could have sued for peace with Hitler while fighting Japan. France, England, Russia, and the rest of Europe could have been left to the Nazis and it would have been no skin off our backs. Let the rest of the world suffer. The rest of the world doesn't need human rights. We shouldn't be the worlds police, getting rid of dictators and leaders who cause human suffering.

Go right ahead and complain about no WMD. Its no skin off my back.

 

[100%Disney]

I want peace as much as anyone else, but sometimes you have to fight a war for peace. The Iraqi people deserve the freedoms that some of us take for granted. I'm proud of what the US did, whether we find WMD or not. I also believe that we should turn up the heat on Syria. Those are my opinions, not that they are the opinions of anyone else on these boards, but I have a right to express my opinions. I also have a Nephew who is in the Navy and is in Turkey at this time and my Dad is in the Army and could be called up at any time. So I am very cautious about wars being started, I have alot to loose, so do alot of others that post here.