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Iraqi officials cheered and clapped as the first oil field up for bid went to a major international consortium at the opening of the country’s biggest postwar auction Friday.

I wonder if george bush cheered? This is the reason he attacked Iraq....OIL! And he didn't get a drop to the companies he initially leased the wells to. Then the Iraqi government came back into power and stripped them from the US.

So much death for this oil. And it ain't over with yet. < :-)

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adaydrea; Bush went to Iraq solely to remove Saddam (infact a WMD himself)free the Iraqi people and find WMD, which we did.

Oil was not in the equation. Good luck to the companies that won tenders. The reasosn for liberation were 100% unselfish.

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DickMorris, that's why bush used fabricated documents, knew before the imfamous state of the union address that Saddam hadn't bought yelloecake uranium and after sending in US investigators all over the country looking for WMD that we sold him and there wasn't anuthing. bush said that if he didn't find anything he wouldn't attack.

YOU BELIEVE anything you like DickMorris, but george bush took the US into a war for oil.

george bush and dick cheney were and are war profiteers. As long as Haliburton stays in Iraq, cheney's war dividends just pour in. < :-)

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"regions with sporadic violence"

They're pretty much all over the world. There are nutters everywhere.

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I wonder if george bush cheered? This is the reason he attacked Iraq....OIL! - So if that was so, then why aren't the Americans auctioning them instead of a Dutch/British company?

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"They're pretty much all over the world. There are nutters everywhere."

Hmmmm, though daily bombings are pretty much an Iraqi monopoly since the "liberation".

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"daily bombings are pretty much an Iraqi monopoly since the "liberation".

Props, my revolutionary brother. Except for the the bombings in Somalia, Pakistan, India, teh Philippines, Nigeria,etc etc you speak the truth, totally. And bushCo's supporters are powerless to refute your talking points.You rock , like no other.

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"Except for the the bombings in Somalia, Pakistan, India, teh Philippines, Nigeria"

None of these places suffer daily bombings, though I'll agree that suicide bombings are generally on the up since the so-called War on Terror.

Here's the greatest hits from Iraq: (a place I'll remind you that didn't have one sole suicide attack before the "liberation")

Mar 2004: 171 killed in bombings in Baghdad and Karbala Nov 2006: 202 killed in multiple blasts in Baghdad Mar 2007: 152 killed in truck bombing in Talafar Apr 2007: 191 killed in car bombings in Baghdad Aug 2007: More than 500 killed in attacks on villages near Sinjar Oct 2009: 155 killed in twin truck bomb attacks in Baghdad Dec 2009: At least 127 killed in a series of car bombs in Baghdad

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8402014.stm

Many of the daily bombings don't even manage to get in the news.

"You rock , like no other."

Thank-you buddy, thank-you.

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