Replies to post #51478 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[BullNBear52]

I had to explain wiretapping to him. He caught on real quick when he came back with eavesdropping.

That Iraq oil deal is a license to steal.

These two explain it all too well.

[sortagreen]

>>> -- I believe it's correct to say that 51% of the revenue to the oil companies was an extremely (. . .) good deal for them and correspondingly lousy deal for Venezuela

One could argue that we're trying to force even more onerous Production Sharing Agreements on our installed government in Iraq, after which we won't give a shi'ite about anything but our power to enforce them.