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Originally Posted by Lil bastard
Let's make the best of a bad situation !!
We're in Iraq and will be for many more months, probably years !!
Gasoline prices are at an all-time high and crippling the economy and the Middle-Class !!
So, let's force the Iraqi's into an agreement whereby whatever we spend on keeping our troops in their country to maintain order (which range from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) estimate of $8 billion per mo. to an estimated $12 billion per mo. by economist Joseph Stiglitz), an equivalent amount of Iraqi Oil is given the US in exchange.
This Oil would go into the Nat'l. Reserves and be dispensed 50/50 with crude from the Oil Cos. at the refinery !! That way, we would cut the price of gasoline and actually get something for all the tax dollars pouring into Iraq !!
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Oh but then the Euros won't like us even more! How will we hold up under such criticism?
