Starring on YouTube...

The Southern Avenger has produced There's Nothing to Win in Iraq which is one of the best vidoes on the war on Iraq -- and, yes, he was nice enough to mention some of my comments.

Comments

Anonymous said…
U.S. Oil majors have recently secured Production Sharing Agreements giving them 75% of the profits on the sale of Iraqi crude. Before the war, these same companies were facing the prospect of being cut out entirely.

125 billion (proven) barrels x $60 per barrel = 7.5 trillion dollars. Iraq crude is of the very highest quality, and so cheap to refine, but let's be generous and say a trillion in costs*. That still leaves 6.5 trillion, 75% of which is a cool 4.9 trillion. Moreover, Iraq is one of the few oil-rich regions of the world not yet fully explored, so there could be much as the same amount again waiting to be found, and the long-term trend for crude prices is nowhere but up.

Admittedly, these are paper winnings, not yet actual profits, but it is obviously false to assert that there is 'Nothing to win in Iraq'.

*The cost of physically holding the country doesn't count, as this is borne by the public.
Anonymous said…
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain,
That we could sit simply in that room again...

Like it or not, Westernization (cell phones, computers, thongs,razz ma tazz)is here to stay in the Middle East. It's a waiting game now, probably till the roaring 20's to see all this make sense...Saudi fields-huge and well maintained are fading. Iran and Iraq have huge fields which are trashed to the point that they are squandering the energy that they contain. Better to let them sit un-f**d with while things settle down into some Soprano like State in both places.My childish peers (class of 71),

there are no good guys. Beautifully spoken Iranian diplomats have been flat out liars (lyres)since"Nightline"1979. Dreaming that policy changed because Cheney was out of town...wow wanna buy a hot nano-tech stock?The future is China; nice-nice on the outside and hard-hard on the inside. That's what my kids want, a dreamland 90% of the time having nothing to do with reality and 10% s*** work that they just want to get over with as soon as possible.
WHB

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