"Mr. Pres...how much UNMETERED Iraqi oil has been pumped??"

[Blackhatjack]

Go back to the Wolfowitz testimony before Congress where he said the "Iraqis could finance their own reconstruction" from the restored oil sales. He even predicted it would not costs the US much to carry out the action.

So how much unmetered oil has been pumped since Saddaam was deposed? Since there is no meter on the pipelines does that mean that no oil has been pumped?(Don't think so!). So could we estimate the amount pumped by the number of tankers that have been filled and left port? Well, where did the money for those oil sales go? You know the Iraqis say they are not seeing any money from oil sales.

So what is the truth?

[gratuitous]

1. Sorry, that's classified

Who shipped it, who paid for it, if they paid for it, and where the tankers went after filling up are all, uh, subject to, er, national security, yeah, that's the ticket. National security.

[AwakeAtLast]

2. If Dems take over Congress, that should be on the Top 10 list

of questions to ask.

Shameless. :(

[razors edge]

3. all of it

[Blackhatjack]

4. Was unmetered oil pumped or not? Were the oil tankers there sightseeing?

...gee, I thought that oil tankers usually transported oil, and especially if they came into port and hooked up to the Iraqi offshore pipelines does it make sense that they left without a drop of oil? Where did the oil go to, and did anyone pay for it?

Any way you crack it, a huge amount of money from oil sales is out there somewhere. Remember Wolfowitz saying it could pay the whole cost of this endeavor? Did it get lost and unaccounted for like the $9 billion the Coalition Provision Authority still cannot find?

[neoblues]

5. Heh, Heh, what's a meatered oil? Heh, Heh.

We got a sayin back in Tex-as... "We doan got no stinkin' un-metered oil..." or "We doan got tuh tell nobody nuthin 'cuz curiousity killed the cat!", heh, heh... naw, really, we're just fighting them there, so we doan got tuh fight 'em here, since what we got here is a clash of the civilizations an our future depends on how things turn out over there ('specially Exxon's future, uh, profits which is a key, uh, to our future...). We just can't let them Islamio-fashists win and get all that oil, it's our job to see the world has access to it (and we're pretty much 'the world' after all). That's my conclusion after long meetings with the Vice President, Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State (all experts who we can trust).

Oh, Oh yeah... I wanted to cover... I, ah... there's some people out there that think we're takin all that IRAQ oil for ourselves--an that we ain't got no meter on it. They even accuse our oil companies of stealin' the profits--and that ain't what 'merica stands for. The problem is, we ain't been able to ship hardly any oil outta there; the terra-ists keep blowin the pipelines faster'n we can fix 'em (as if they wanted to keep us from sellin IRAQI oil--as though it was theirs and we were tryin to steal it--but blowin up the pipelines just makes everything take longer--uh--I mean, uh, it keeps us there longer... I mean, well, it just keeps us from rebuilding the country as fast as we want). So don't you believe we've been gettin oil money from IRAQ, Dick--you know, Vice President Cheney, says the terra-ists have been blowing the pipelines up (I tole him we oughta bury the pipes, he said he'd take it under 'advisement').

So, rest assured, we're winning in IRAQ and all is well, but we've gotta be constantly focused and viligent, and cogisnant that we face deadly danger from everywhere--the terra-ists are alive and well and spreading so it's an all-out war we're in. We can't pull out premature; we won't be accused of premature evacuations--we don't want them following us home, so we'll do them over there. Unlike my predator--Bill Clinton--we're doing something about terraism, and we have a plan, and we're sticking with it no matter what. And just so you know, I ain't--um, nothing I'm saying is political, it's just the right time to tell the 'merican people. They have a need to know.

(enough drivel...)

[razors edge]

6. Archimedes settled this shit

long ago, any Japanese 7th grader could calculate the crude draw, perhaps even an american with a bachelors, but I don't want to expect too much.