The War in Iraq is going Well; Discuss.

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In my long post near the top of the page, I linked to Bush’s statement that Iraqi oil production was nearing 2M barrels a day.

But further down in today’s CNN story about the latest two US soldiers killed in Iraq, there are some comments from the Iraqi oil minister, Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloom:

Just a wee bit smaller than Bush was saying.

There’s always the possibility that Iraqi oil production was at the rate of “nearly two million barrels a day” for about fifteen minutes, then it dropped down to the million-barrel rate it could sustain. In which case, it wouldn’t be an outright lie, but just deliberately giving a misleading impression about the state of Iraqi oil production.

Is there anything we can trust these guys on???

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Maybe it just peaked @ 2mil. Not the same as maintained or averaged.

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That’s pretty much my thinking, Simon. It’s just that if they can only sustain 1M bpd, it seems unlikely that they achieved anything near 2M bpd in a way that looked sustainable. And it’s hard to believe the Bushies didn’t know that.

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It’s probably a “not-lie” then.

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Still why import ? Lack of refineries ?

Even if they do manage 2 billion they are a resistance attack away from getting the pipeline blown up again.

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If the Viet Cong could get fix a bridge we blew up in a few hours the most technologically advanced nation in the world can fix a freakin’ pipeline.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A46700-2003Oct18?language=printer

A Burger King is now open. See, that was the plot all along. The war was waged to sell hamburgers, not to steal oil!

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Seems the burgers are more for US troops than anything else… :slight_smile: PR opp…

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Yeah, but it will stay when we leave. Burgers are big business just about anywhere that beef is popular.

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True… funny enough Burger King isnt big in Brazil. Seems McD dominated the local market.

Why is Burger King more expensive than McDonalds anyway ?