Comments on: China Signs $3 Billion Oil Deal With Iraq

By: xavo

xavo — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:00:42 +0000

the deal was already in place pre-2003, from the chinese perspective, the war delayed their oil for 5 years.

By: fsc

fsc — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:38:36 +0000

It’s geopolitics, there’s no “good guys” no matter how loud whoever yells FREEDOM DEMOCRACY.

By: happygolucky

happygolucky — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:15:52 +0000

Maybe we should just admit that the world is divided into greedy, selfish people and those who believe in equality and have an honest moral compass. One day we will all have to deal with who is who.

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:15:38 +0000

@Alex. Sorry, I guess I missed the part of the article about Iraq cancelling their contract with Exxon.

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:54:40 +0000

The interest on the money Bush borrowed from China to finance the war will probably pay for the oil China buys.
But if it makes you feel better, China will probably NEVER get the principle back.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:49:26 +0000

Damned if they do, damned if they don’t. If ExxonMobil had the contract instead, you’d be screaming that it was for the pockets of the oil majors. As the Bush Administration has said from day one, they’re doing this in the interest of the world entire, to ensure that oil from the whole middle eastern region (4 out of 5 of the world’s largest reserve holding nations share the Iraqi border) keeps flowing, not just for America, but for everyone.

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:40:43 +0000

Im sure Exxon would have used the Red Chinese Army to invade Iraq if China had a congress they could lobby.

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:28:28 +0000

We need to open up offshore drilling so the Chinese can have access to American oil. Then no more US troops need die for Exxon.
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By: JVermont

JVermont — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:41:58 +0000

Oh, come now, Ben (if I may call you that) – surely you know there were excellent reasons all those useless Iraqi citizens needed to die. To begin with, they were simply in the way of American interests in the region. They were not contributing to the increased profits of Haliburton, Exxon, GE, etc. It’s ashame they perished in the last throws, if you will, of the insurgency where a bunch of dead-enders didn’t realize that freedom was on the march and that, in fact, we found WMDs and we have been greeted as liberators. In fact the entire affair has been paid for by the profits of Iraqi oil, so America is none the worse for wear. Our economy is booming and jobs are plentiful and secure. The dollar is strong and so is our military. George W. Bush has done a fine job in maintaining the United States integrity in the world as well. Let’s hope his successor, whoever that may be, doesn’t screw that up!

(sorry I just can’t stand the bullshit anymore… maybe we deserve to be where we are as a country: fucked and far from home. I feel ill.)

By: Benjamin Doherty

Benjamin Doherty — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:20:08 +0000

It sounds to me like the Chinese already had the deal, so the invasion only delayed the inevitable Chinese-Iraqi relationship.

I imagine the Iraqis could see it another way: “Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died for no good reason at all.”