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LoneVoice
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Originally posted by Aquarian
true. It's a delicate dance this international politics, and there are no little feet painted on the floor...
Oil revenues for rebuilding Iraq could have been done. It's a major, valuable, natural resource in Iraq, it would be appropriate to use that to fund the Iraq reconstruction. If Bush/U.S. wanted to avoid the very natural conclusion that oil was the U.S. reason for the war, then all that had to be done is not utilize any American/Bush cronies for extracting the oil (Don't go to your automatic response of well who then Germans, French, Russians...). The Iraqi oil industry could've even been started up by England or anyone else (there are plenty with the necessary oil experience). In order to really stay above the corruption accusations, the next primary step would be to ensure that Iraqians were trained to as quickly as possible take over maintaining and managing their own oil industry for the purpose of aiding in the reconstruction of Iraq.
This would've been one way to ensure that Iraq oil industry looked above board. But instead, the U.S. tax payers are funding the bill for Iraq reconstruction, and U.S./Bush cronies were given the prime contracts for managing the oil. This served to justify and prophecy the claims of the terrorist recruiters and bolster anti-American sentiment in the world.
