Reconstruction of Iraq

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Why are US taxpayers paying for Iraq still? Why isn't Iraqi oil paying for it? Or why aren't the oil companies paying? Read this before you answer:

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders


Iraq has either the worlds 2nd or 3rd largest proven oil reserves.

Oil in Iraq - UN Security Council - Global Policy Forum - Oil in Iraq

 

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“Overall, since 2005, the five biggest oil companies have made $345 billion in profits and spent over $250 billion buying back stock and paying dividends to shareholders. Last year, Exxon Mobil spent 850 percent more buying back its own stock than it did on capital expenditures in the United States. The $38 billion in windfall profits that ExxonMobil gave back to shareholders last year, could have been used to reduce gas prices at the pump throughout the United States by 27 cents-a-gallon for the entire year.

And yet the class traitors on this board (and every other like it, no doubt) still insist that liberals are responsible for the lack of refineries in this nation.

The cozy relationship between our so called elected representatives and the corporate masters they shill for is so very obvious that no one who looks at the issue honestly can possible fail to see it.

Let's not kid ourselves. Since 1998, the oil and gas industry has spent over $616 million on lobbying. Who have they hired? Well, on April 8th of this year, The Hill reported that Chevron hired former Majority Leader Trent Lott, a Republican; former Senator John Breaux, a Democrat; their sons Chester Trent Lott, Jr. and John Breaux, Jr.; and Trent Boyles, who was Lott’s Chief of Staff to lobby Congress on issues relating to trade, climate change, and energy taxes. Exxon Mobil has hired former Senator Don Nickles, a Republican from Oklahoma, who served in this body for 24 years, to lobby Congress on behalf of their issues. These are just a few of the hundreds of lobbyists that big oil and gas companies have hired to influence Congress, many of them former Senators, former Congressmen, and former Congressional staffers. And, that is one of the reasons why, among many other reasons, this Congress, in recent years, has decided to give some $18 billion in tax breaks to oil companies despite their record-breaking profits.

When these masters of industry bribe our pols, they don't just bribe our former Pols to shill for them,-- oh no! -- their whole damned family feeds at their tarnished golden troughs like the swine these people really are.

Anyone who claims they cannot see what is going on here is either brain dead or swine-enabling scum, folks.

Nepotism, corruption, perversion of the laws, the rape of the government treasury -- all well perfectly understood hallmarks of corrupted empires -- and THIS ONE is, I suspect, going to go down in a tsunami
of red ink, as the reality of this situtation plays itself out so obviously in the world's currency, bond and equities markets.

Now where's our heroic gun queer revolutionaires who are going to protect us from an oppressive goverment, again?

Sitting around jerking themselves off, playing with their guns, while off whining about how welfare mothers and liberals are screwing them, that's where.

What a truly sick society this has become in my lifetime thanks to the unfttered greed of this class of liars and their servants who support them.