Chavez cuts off oil to Exxon!?!

[wordsmythe]

Originally Posted by Tee

Army, Sgt T,

Face it guys... You're damned if you do, and damned if you don't. If the libs get their way, we'll all be damned.

So you've turned sterotypical on us?

I didn't blame anyone but the responsible party. Georget W. Bush and Barack Obama's cousing Dick Cheney. (It must suck for someone like him to have a black sheep like that weighing the family down)

[jeezeweeze]

Originally Posted by Army_of_One

There are some that would buy into that rubbish.

Well that would be me.

I was doing some research and something I had not thought about and ran across is.................... TEXAS OILMEN

Lets see.... I had forgot that LBJ was a Texas oilman and as I looked into it, he even had connections to Haliburton during some war back in the 60's.
What does that have to do with oil you say..... Look it up. They are nose deep in oil. They have all kinds of subsidiaries.

Oilfield Technologies and Services - Halliburton
KBR, Inc.: A Leading Global Engineering, Construction and Services Company.

I know you are gonna say " Those damned ole evil Democrats and their big mouths....... well seems its not about a party its about greed and only greed..... Evil men exploiting their country thru politics.

There is nothing we can do about it. Its just how it is.

SO YEAH ...I TOTALLY BUY INTO IT. thank you very much.

You guys are young and still BUY into the" its all about helping the Iraqi people and bringing them democracy".... Thats a noble cause but that ain't what I think....... but thats just me.


Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the ... - Google Book Search

[Army_of_One]

Originally Posted by jeezeweeze

You guys are young and still BUY into the" its all about helping the Iraqi people and bringing them democracy".... Thats a noble cause but that ain't what I think....... but thats just me.

It's not all about that. It IS about oil in a sense. In my opinion it's about stability or TRYING to get stability in the middle east where a percentage of our oil comes from. It's also about military strategy (have base's in Iraq, which Obama says we will not have but we already have). It's about being in the region to put pressure on other countries like Iran. It took us MONTHS to get built up for Desert Storm. If we need to DO something in Iran because say they bust open a dirty bomb on us...our troops are right there and can GO.

Do people get wealthy off of the war. You bet. Everything this country does whether it's building planes, buying tanks or making war...someone profits. It's the American way. Are there back room deals cut...hell yeah, always has and always will...by both parties. The best thing I can tell you to do is that if you think Haliburtion is making so damned much money it would make good sense to invest in their company and get a little piece of the cabbage.

[wordsmythe]

Originally Posted by Army_of_One

It's not all about that. It IS about oil in a sense. In my opinion it's about stability or TRYING to get stability in the middle east where a percentage of our oil comes from. It's also about military strategy (have base's in Iraq, which Obama says we will not have but we already have). It's about being in the region to put pressure on other countries like Iran. It took us MONTHS to get built up for Desert Storm. If we need to DO something in Iran because say they bust open a dirty bomb on us...our troops are right there and can GO.

Do people get wealthy off of the war. You bet. Everything this country does whether it's building planes, buying tanks or making war...someone profits. It's the American way. Are there back room deals cut...hell yeah, always has and always will...by both parties. The best thing I can tell you to do is that if you think Haliburtion is making so damned much money it would make good sense to invest in their company and get a little piece of the cabbage.

Not everyone is concerned with their own greed above all else.

[Army_of_One]

Originally Posted by wordsmythe

Not everyone is concerned with their own greed above all else.

What greed?

[jeezeweeze]

Originally Posted by Army_of_One

Do people get wealthy off of the war. You bet. Everything this country does whether it's building planes, buying tanks or making war...someone profits. It's the American way. And there you have it..... I guess because its the American way that makes it all just hunky dorie

Are there back room deals cut...hell yeah, always has and always will...by both parties. WOW I AM IMPRESSED. finely a voice of reason

The best thing I can tell you to do is that if you think Haliburtion is making so damned much money it would make good sense to invest in their company and get a little piece of the cabbage. I personally would not be able to sleep knowing how many die for me to make a profit.

I just never had enough ambition or taste for the finer things in life. I am pretty content just to be able to live pay check to pay check.

[Army_of_One]

Originally Posted by jeezeweeze

I just never had enough ambition or taste for the finer things in life. I am pretty content just to be able to live pay check to pay check.

People dieing for profit? Come on....enough with the grandstanding crap. Do you wear or buy anything from China? (It's rhetorical I KNOW you do, we all do) Do you sleep at night thinking about how your shoes or the clothes you war may have been made by some little kid in a sweatshop working for pennies a day? But we wear it..don't you.

How about all those cigs you smoke...supporting big tobacco that advertises towards young adults and such. The big, evil tobacco companies that have been caught putting things into the cigs to MAKE them addictive. Cigs kill more people a year than many other things yet you still support them...but you bash Haliburtion. Haliburtion supplies a lot of things to our troops so they can function in combat. They operate for profit just like the big tobacco companies you support with your habits. What a hippocrite. You won't buy oil stock and you can't sleep at night because of the evil haliburton but you can rest easy in your chair puffing on a cig which makes the tobacco companies big profits...I can't figure that one out. Somehow you must rationalize it so you can sleep.

You eat chicken and meat cut up and process by illegal immigrants that are working in a dangerous environemnt but I guess you don't lose any sleep over that either....

I guess you are just selective....

The bottom line world isn't perfect and no ONE person is going to fix all of the imperfections of it. Everything we consume probably has some type of "blood trail" or someone was taken advantage of in the process of getting it to us. It's the world we live in...

You remind me of my niece. She went through a period of time when she was a vegetarian and wouldn't eat meat. She told me that one day as she was wearing her leather jacket and leather shoes. (She was a liberal back then) Now that she is out of college and making a lot more money she loves big steaks and tax cuts...lol

[Army_of_One]

Originally Posted by jeezeweeze

I just never had enough ambition or taste for the finer things in life.

Out of curiosity what are the finer things in KY? Curtains instead of towels in the windows of your trailer...lol I'm just messing with you JW. I used to live in KY.

By the way...Did you know the TOOTHBRUSH was invented in Kentucky? Had it been invented anywhere else it would have been called a TEETHBRUSH....

[jeezeweeze]

Originally Posted by Army_of_One

Out of curiosity what are the finer things in KY? Curtains instead of towels in the windows of your trailer...lol I'm just messing with you JW. I used to live in KY.
Actually my curtains are made of beer can tabs.....LOL
By the way...Did you know the TOOTHBRUSH was invented in Kentucky? Had it been invented anywhere else it would have been called a TEETHBRUSH....

I know I know ...that is funny I don't care who you are.

[Army_of_One]

Originally Posted by jeezeweeze

I know I know ...that is funny I don't care who you are.

You know...I almost believed you there for a minute but no one is that redneck.