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Title: wow, and people think my ideas are crazy Post by: Aske on August 06, 2008, 10:38:36 AM http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2008/8/5/how-general-petraeus-saved-the-us-economy.html
Title: Re: wow, and people think my ideas are crazy Post by: Blader on August 06, 2008, 11:23:18 AM Worth mentioning that the author's last name rhymes with 'cookie'
Title: Re: wow, and people think my ideas are crazy Post by: gleek on August 06, 2008, 07:28:26 PM OTOH, if we took the >$1T that this Iraqi invasion and occupation has cost us and purchased the oil on the open market at the pre-invasion price of, say, $25/barrel, we could have stockpiled 40B barrels of oil. This would have covered the oil consumption of the entire US for 5.5 years.
Title: Re: wow, and people think my ideas are crazy Post by: MFAWG on August 06, 2008, 08:58:15 PM Gen. Petraeus certainly did all right by the Iraqi economy.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/05/iraq.oil/?iref=hpmostpop Iraq's oil-fueled surplus could hit $80 billion, report says They can start paying us back now, yes? |