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Tchiowa wrote:
BTW, that's the business I'm in. I know for unquestioned fact that the
US oil companies would prefer it if Iraqi oil stayed off the market.
It forces the oil prices up and the oil companies are making near
record profits because of it.

Think about infrastructure contracts for both rebuilding and on-going
operation. France and Russia had those, albeit severely limited by sanctions.
Now the US has lifted scanctions, cancelled the existing contracts and is
goving those contracts to US firms.

Now think about the money for those contracts. It's mostly coming from
US taxpayers. Are you suggesting that the US spent billions of dollars
invading Iraq so that they could spend billions more dollars
rebuilding it using US contractors?

This is just one example of how the whole conspiracy theory doesn't
wash.