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has passed its peak and is in decline,
the whole planet is, just because of
the size of the reserves that are there.
Iraq is oil that's not only accessible,
it's right close to the Persian Gulf,
which means it's a short distance to ships.
They can put the pipelines,
they can get that into the global supply stream.
As everything else declines.
And Iraq was all about the oil. You know,
a lot of people have admitted that and like 'duh'.
Eleven days after 9/11,
when there was no clear evidence that
Saddam Hussein had anything to do with 9/11,
of course he didn't,
that the plans were started to invade Iraq.
Of course!
That was the objective.
Get control of that oil.
Because Saddam Hussein had been talking about
pricing his oil in Euros, taking it away from the dollar.
We got in there, we restructured everything,
we put in a friendly government,
using the US dollar,
and we assured the oil companies their quote on quote
fair access and fair share of Iraqi oil.
We have no intention of leaving Iraq.
Going back to 2004, we started building the largest,
most permanent military bases, three of them, in the world,
plus the largest embassy compound
that's ever been built.
We built an embassy compound in Bagdad
that's bigger than Vatican City.
That's not a temporary deal.
Nobody's gonna take that oil,
we're sitting on it.
But there's not enough oil in Iraq
to change anything.
But Iraq probably has around
That sounds like a lot of oil.
But when you consider that in 2008,
the world was consuming 85 million in barrels a day,
that means a billion barrels of oil only lasts
for about 11 and a half days.
So that ain't that much oil.
They knew exactly what was coming.
That's what's in the National Energy
Policy Development Group report
that's been classified, because
if that report got declassified,
we would be building scaffolds to hang
Dick Cheney and everbody
in that administration tomorrow.
Let's assume just for the sake of discussion
that there's 600 billion barrels in the arctic.
First of all, it happens to be under the polar ice cap.
That's a problem.
The polar ice cap happens to be on,
what, 10,000 - 15,000 feet of water.
The problem with the polar ice cap is,
it floats, it moves.
So you can't drill a well on tuesday.
and expect it to be in the same place on thursday.
That's why a lot of conservative
think tanks and oil companies,
are cheering the melting of the polar ice caps.
If there is oil in A.N.W.R.,
there's no more
There are no pipelines across the thousand miles
of tundra that's melting
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