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Smith_3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 08:04 AM
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A simple question about Iraq
I thought we went there to get cheap oil. So why are the gas prices are going up and not down? Am I missing something?
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Kelvin Mace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 08:05 AM
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1. Cheap oil for Exxon
No one ever said they would pass the savings onto us.
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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-27-08 08:10 AM
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2. google palast iraq oil
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=palast+iraq+oil&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Results 1 - 10 of about 307,000 for palast iraq oil. (0.26 seconds)

Greg Palast | Keeping Iraq's Oil in the GroundKeeping Iraq's Oil in the Ground By Greg Palast AlterNet. Wednesday 14 June 2006. World oil production today stands at more than twice the 15-billion a-year ...
www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061406J.shtml - 22k - Cached - Similar pages

Greg Palast | Secret US Plans for Iraq's OilSecret US Plans for Iraq's Oil By Greg Palast OfficialWire. Thursday 17 March 2005. The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq's oil before the ...
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Democracy Now! | U.S. Broadcast Exclusive: Secret U.S. Plans For ...Greg Palast joins us in our firehouse studio and we air his exclusive report, "Secret US Plans For Iraq's Oil" for the first time in this country.
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AlterNet: War on Iraq: Keeping Iraq's Oil In the GroundPalast, again. here we are talking about how chimpy invaded Iraq for it's oil. it never occured to me that they wanted to keep it under the sand. it makes ...
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BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | Secret US plans for Iraq's oilMar 17, 2005 ... US plans for Iraq oil Click here to watch Greg Palast's film · Jeremy Paxman, Kirsty Wark, Gavin Esler and Emily Maitlis - click to watch ...
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Bush Didn’t Bungle Iraq, You Fools Greg PalastGreg Palast, reporting for BBC, Harpers and more. ... Yes, Bush went in for the oil — not to get more of Iraq’s oil, but to prevent Iraq producing too much ...
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Tag Archive for oil Greg PalastTags: afghanistan, Bush, Exxon Valdez, george bush, gregpalast, greg palast, Iraq, oilafghanistan Bush Exxon Valdez george bush gregpalast greg palast Iraq ...
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THE CAUSE FOR THE IRAQ WAR--Greg PalastRead the full story in the April edition of Harper's Magazine, out this week: "OPEC ON THE MARCH: Why Iraq Still Sells Its Oil à la Cartel," by Greg Palast. ...
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Antiwar.com Blog · Greg PalastGreg Palast, investigative reporter for BBC Newsnight and author of Armed Madhouse, explains the oil game in Iraq, the deal behind the U.S. attorney scandal ...
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