Dick Cheney Admits "Its About The Oil"

I think this pictures speaks for itself...

Would you prefer that Iraqi oil production be kept low? Why? Do you have economic interests in Saudi Arabia? Afraid of Iraqi competition in world oil markets?

Ever since Bush and Cheney took office, Halliburton has become flush with cash and treasure. Just ignore the stock chart.

Cheney daughter as human shield in Baghdad

Oil production will rise because they will no longer be under sanctions. The profits can be used to help the Iraqi people instead of buidling weapons of Saddam.

TotalFinaElf wants post-war Iraq deal

BRUSSELS, April 9 (AFP) - French oil giant TotalFinaElf staked its claim Wednesday to a role in rebuilding Iraq once the dust settles from the US-led war.

In an interview with Belgian newspaper L'Echo, TotalFinaElf chairman Thierry Desmarest said "international law must be respected" when the United States hands out reconstruction contracts.

"Calls for international tenders must be launched to determine who will take part in the reconstruction and the development," he said.

Desmarest said TotalFinaElf holds the "trump cards" in Iraq's oil industry with drilling concessions in the southern region of Bassorah.

"In this respect, we're a year ahead of our main competitors in terms of technical expertise," he said.

Desmarest denied that his company had fallen victim to any anti-French sentiment in the United States over the Iraq war, which Paris along with other capitals such as Moscow has staunchly opposed.

French and Russian companies led the way in forging contracts with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's government, before a United Nations embargo imposed after the 1991 Gulf War.

Washington appears in no mood to let such companies back in to the lucrative business of rebuilding Iraq now that Saddam's regime appears on the way out.

"Our leadership follows this logic: it's unlikely someone will give you a piece of the pie if you didn't help bake it," Robert Ebel, a top energy analyst at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, said in an interview with the Russian business daily Kommersant Wednesday.

"Ever since Bush and Cheney took office, Halliburton has become flush with cash and treasure. Just ignore the stock chart"

Halliburton has received illegal help by Bush and Cheney, but that isnt exactly enough to prevent it fro having gone the same way as the rest of the economy. Enron is an example where illegal benefits (tax breaks from those they gave money to) are now pretty obvious. Illegally covering up Enron's losses was one key reason it collapsed.

Please explain what Bush and/or Cheney had to do with the Enron accounting scandal.

They can't...just like they have no clue what is actually going on in terms of national security and the world of corporate finance. How many people here are qualified to make such comments (i.e. have finance/economics degrees)? I'd guess 1 or 2 at most. But facts don't matter when you have propaganda...pot calling the kettle black in my estimation.