40 trillion dollars in oil reserves = military draft on the way

[Elwood P Dowd]

There are 112 billion barrels in Iraq. Big oil finally got their pipeline in Afghanistan to tap the 40 billion barrels in the Caspian Sea Area. There are 90 billion barrels in Iran.

How many more combat troops do they need to secure that area...400,000...800,000? And what about support troops?

Now the Bushits and big oil are already in bed with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and UAE. That group has about 450 billion barrels. Add North America's 70 billion barrels. Add it all up, and Bushit, big oil, and their partners in the Middle East would control over 40 TRILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF OIL RESERVES at 60 bucks a barrel.

I feel a draft.

[Jcrowley]

1. Somebody's gotta

die for the corporate paymasters. Gotta keep the world safe for Wal-Mart and Plastic Emporium Nation. Not to mention fatten the portfolio for the supreme greedhead DICK cheney.

[MadMaddie]

2. I have been sayng Draft for awhile now....

[ddeclue]

3. We need 2,000,000 just to secure Iraq..

We don't have 10% of the troops required in Iraq right now.

Draft all you want, we will never have enough troops to control these countries at the point of a gun.

Iran has 75 million citizens, and many of them young - they can draft more soldiers than we can.

And last time I checked, tanks, planes, and helicopters all required fuel. If we go to war with these countries we won't have any fuel to power our machines of war.

Anyways we'd need to draft every man woman and child in this country to occupy the whole middle east - we'd need an Army the size of what we had in World War II - 15 to 20 million men - it will nevef happen.

Doug D.
Orlando, FL

[stillcool]

4. and it isn't just the oil...

it's deciding who gets to play with them. It really confounds my belief in human beings.

[NorCalDem]

5. I say bring it on...

nothing will end this war faster than a draft. That would certainly wake the people up enough to make them do something about it, at least I hope it would. I know for sure that shit wouldn't fly where I live, which is in Berkeley, so that's not saying much :D

[Deja Q]

6. Bush said, big time in the debate, that as president, HE said

"there will be no draft!"

Kinda bigger than "No new taxes" from 1990...

[Elwood P Dowd]

8. That's why their burning up the Constitution

Anybody that opposes them will become an enemy combatant or terrorist.

[Warpy]

7. Plus Stupid's people have been buying up oil on the spot market

no matter how much it costs, to add to the strategic reserve.

Sounds like they're preparing to take on the whole world, doesn't it?

We won't win, by the way.