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  1. Huh? Bush wasn't president until 2001.....so maybe you mean Clinton / Blair ? Saddam claimed that the UN inspectors were spying for the US/UK.

    Either way it doesn't matter....The US and UK wanted to topple Saddam and the post 9/11 environment made it possible. Iraq was routinely under attack and strangled by sanctions before that, including actions by Canada.

    And lie to the world about WMDs don't forget that one.

  2. The only thing I can easily find is that Carter helped out the Shah but asked for reformed which seemed to have helped the demise of the Shah.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703833204576114510470768534.html

    You can only help someone to a point. Once the Shah was pro OPEC oil embargo and he went against American interests his goose was cooked. If you are puppet you do what you are told. Carter helped him as much as he could politically but he didn't have the push that he could have had if the Shah did what he was told to do.

  3. No problema.....Canadians love them some oil...same as 'Merkins !

    CALGARY, Oct. 2 (2007) /CNW/ - Heritage Oil Corporation (TSX: HOC) ("Heritage"

    or "the Company") today is pleased to announce that it has executed a

    Production Sharing Contract with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) over

    Miran Block in the south-west of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and that

    Heritage will be operating as a 50/50 partner with the KRG to create a 20,000

    barrel per day oil refinery in the vicinity of the licence area.

    Under the terms of the agreement, Heritage Energy Middle East Limited, a

    wholly owned subsidiary of Heritage, will serve as operator. Heritage will

    join the existing and increasing presence of international oil exploration,

    development and production companies operating in the Kurdistan Region of

    Iraq.

    http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/127071/heritage-oil-awarded-production-sharing-contract-in-kurdistan-region-of-iraq

    Which they then went on to sell all of as of last year.

    Heritage Oil has completed the previously announced disposal of the remaining 49% interest in the Miran Block in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

    On 12 November 2012, Heritage issued the Exchange Repayment Notice signifying the intention to repay the $294 million loan made by Genel Energy to Heritage in August 2012 through the transfer of Heritage's remaining 49% participating interest. Completion of the sale was subject to the approval of Heritage's shareholders, which was received overwhelmingly at the extraordinary General Meeting on 12 December 2012. Completion was also subject to other customary closing conditions including relevant approvals being granted by the Regional Council for the Oil and Gas Affairs of Kurdistan, which have been received.

    Following completion and receipt of formal approval of the transfer by the Regional Council, Heritage no longer has an interest in Kurdistan.

    http://www.energy-pedia.com/news/iraq/new-153194

    By low, sell high, never set foot in the country. Seems like this is the game plan for the small time Canadian companies who are putting out bids no one else is sitting on land then unloading them as other big players expand into the ground they now have the contract to develop.

  4. excellent find punked! Does this put an end to the incessant nattering about Canada and post-war contracts? Does BC-2004... have more?

    From the research it is an oil field in the mountains no one bid on because the price oil needs to be super high for recovery. The Canadian company won the bid because they were the only ones who bid on it but because it is obvious a company that operates like all of 10 wells in Canada was never going to get this oil they were just bidding so they could later sell the contract to a bigger player and it added something to a very small companies portfolio. At this point the Iraq government pulled the bids and may have or may not have re-award the contract to the Canadian company again but they never did anything in the country.

  5. Why is America better than those i mentioned? If America is better than these nations, why do you defend their despotic leaders all the time?

    If you don't know why I trust the American government more then the one in North Korea then you really have no place in this discussion. To this day I will still trust the world of the American government over all those countries you names but I wont trust them the way I did pre Iraq invasion Shady.

    And it speaks volumes of your politics that you think world governments should be held to the standards of North Korea.

  6. He only has a problem when America "lies" to him. However, he has no problem with other countries lying to him. See Russia, Greece, Iran, North Korea, Iraq, Zimbabwe, Syria, Cuba, Pakistan, China, or the United Nations.

    Yes I hold America to higher standard then China, I trust America more I think it is a better country then China or Zimbabwe. Sorry that you think America should play to the lowest standard but it does explain a lot of your political beliefs that you think the standard America should live up to is North Korea.

  7. If that upsets you, that another country lied to you, how upset are you that your country lied to you about not being involved in Iraq?

    I always assume the choices American governments make our governments will follow. We have an old saying up here:

    "In America they have their Hawks and they have their Doves but in Canada all you are going to find are Parrots" At least as long as we keep electing Conservative-Conservatives and Liberal-Conservatives.

  8. Really. So Canada has complete faith in everything the U.S. government says? You do too? You believe our governments never lie? I sure don't. For the record, I never believed Iraq had WMD at the time.

    Well I don't any more but up until that point you had a pretty good track record of not lying to our faces at least for the most part eh? Trust of course is something you earn and lose which I guess you guys are ok with.

  9. Canada doesn't have any intel capabilities? - Is that "Canada's Shame?" Because after all, what kind of an excuse is it for a country to involve itself in war because 'it didn't know any better?'

    No we clearly don't have the intel capabilities that the US has. I guess we thought a close ally wouldn't lie us into a war, I think the American people thought the same thing. I guess we were all fooled.

  10. Here 'ya go.....and remember, PM Martin begged President Bush for a piece of the action because Canada actually helped after all.

    Post-Saddam Iraq awards its first oil contracts

    Wednesday, February 23, 2005

    BAGHDAD — Iraq has awarded its first oil development contracts since

    the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime.

    The Oil Ministry has awarded development contracts to companies from

    Canada and Turkey. Turkey's Everasia was awarded a project to develop the

    Khurmala Dome oil field in northern Iraq. Canada's Ironhorse Oil and Gas was

    selected to develop Himrin field.

    http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/front2453424.975.html

    Seems like they awarded the contract to a Canadian company then went back on it. I can't find where the status of it is now.

    http://globeinvestor.com/servlet/ArticleNews/story/ROC/20041225/2004-12-25T193421Z_01_N25599859_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESS-ENERGY-IRAQ-HIMRIN-COL

  11. What's a thread about "America's shame" without giving credit where credit is due?

    Canada's support for the Iraq war was gratefully acknowledged by then-U.S. Ambassador to Canada, Paul Cellucci. On March 25, 2003. during the "shock and awe" bombardment of Iraq, he admitted that "ironically, Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and personnel...will supply more support to this war in Iraq indirectly...than most of those 46 countries that are fully supporting our efforts there.

    Whose intel was that support based on again?

  12. Here 'ya go.....and remember, PM Martin begged President Bush for a piece of the action because Canada actually helped after all.

    Post-Saddam Iraq awards its first oil contracts

    Wednesday, February 23, 2005

    BAGHDAD — Iraq has awarded its first oil development contracts since

    the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime.

    The Oil Ministry has awarded development contracts to companies from

    Canada and Turkey. Turkey's Everasia was awarded a project to develop the

    Khurmala Dome oil field in northern Iraq. Canada's Ironhorse Oil and Gas was

    selected to develop Himrin field.

    http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/front2453424.975.html

    That is weird all the reports I have read say Kirkuk (Khurmala Dome) is being developed by the Korea National Oil Corporation.

  13. Congratulations to the 'Coalition of the Willing' on the anniversary of the Iraq invasion and resulting demise of Saddam Hussein. The U.S. 'regime' was rewarded with re-election in 2004 (the defiant basis for my member name). Congratulations to Canada as well for securing post invasion oil service contracts.

    And a crushing defeat in 2006 when all the details came to light over the course of 2005. Oh I forgot we pretend the things we don't like and the realities didn't happen around here.

  14. LOL!!!!!!!

    Shady you have gone so far down the rabbit hole you are now telling me what my motivations for moving to Canada are and that the poster who was me crazy then you about Benghazi and Obama's involvement is somehow an Obama cheerleader. You are no longer rewriting history you are now trying to tell us what we are thinking. It is beyond belief now.

  15. Nobody is rewriting history here....the U.S. and U.K. wanted Saddam gone....long before 9/11. Hell, Clinton and Blair tried to kill him in 1998. It's not complicated. Arguing about how it was achieved is for the navel gazers. Ding...dong....Saddam is dead.

    Pretending the American and world public weren't lied for this goal and that the ends some how justify the means is a very real argument we should have even if you don't want to. I suggest if you don't want to have that argument you go elsewhere because it is an argument worth having.

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