At 10:47 PM 5/15/2013, Marv Gandall wrote:
>On 2013-05-15, at 2:25 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> > And of course liberals and too many radicals are continuing to whine that
> > Bush's invasion of Iraq failed. But Bush achieved what every president from
> > Eisenhower to Clinton had failed to achieve: the permanent presence of u.s.
> > troops in the area.
>
>On 2013-05-15, at 4:53 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
>
> > Yep. and i want a cookie for being right damn it. I said long ago that
> > it was oil, it was to establish a military presence in the region
>
>1. There are no longer any US military bases in Iraq.
>
>2. The permanent presence of US troops in the Middle East is small - about
>5000 troops, mostly in the Gulf states and Turkey - and their deployment
>predates the invasion of Iraq by the Bush administration.
>
>2. Following the invasion, American oil companies were not given
>privileged access to Iraqi oil by the al-Maliki government, which awarded
>concessions on economic rather than political grounds. China is expected
>to soon become Iraq's biggest market and Chinese state-owned oil firms are
>partners or operators in several major Iraqi oil fields, dwarfing the
>presence of US oil majors who have shown little interest in developing the
>country's oil reserves..
>
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