On 1/25/2012 3:03 AM, Invisible wrote:
>>>> It seems that that probably doesn't have a lot to do with reality.
>>>> There were a couple of Star Wars games that came out as well, yet the
>>>> Empire is still a work of fiction.
>>>
>>> Well, sure. But I suspect before all this happened, most people had
>>> never even *heard* of Iraq.
>>
>> Except for everyone who remembers the first Iraq war (back in the 90s),
>> or everyone who heard of Saddam Hussein, or everyone who took the
>> slightest interest in where oil in the US came from.
>
> Seriously? You get oil from Iraq? The entire country appears to be a
> barren desert wilderness; where is the complex infrastructure necessary
> for oil extraction?
>
Umm. Actually, we probably don't. Two reasons -

1. We wouldn't know anyway, since our own trade agreements *require* 
that any oil we get has to be bought from the global market (including 
what is pumped in the US, then sold to that market, before being bought 
back from it, which is one reason, beyond the strange idea that 
imaginary jobs, for a new pipeline, which will just ship the stuff to 
the coast, to be loaded on a ship, to be sent to Opec, with no other 
projects *at all*, will, "benefit the US", and solve a problem of 32 
million jobs not existing).

2. I certainly haven't heard anything to indicate, at all, that any sort 
of real agreements where ever made to acquire any of their oil. And, you 
would think, if such an agreement existed, Bush would have been 
trumpeting it, during the period in which he was still in charge, and 
supposedly working with Iraq on such things.

Yeah, love to see some numbers on how much "oil" we get from Iraq... lol

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