Certainly not a bad thing for Iraq.

It could be of course, if Iraq wasn’t occupied and that the profits are being creamed off by American companies and in some cases simply embezzled.

and at a price the USA calls

Where does this come from?

Are you doubting it? Did you not read the link concerning the missing $9 billion in oil revenues during the time that Bremner was in charge? Now of course it’s being un metered. Why exactly, are meters hard to come by?

But you have already drawn a conclusion before such a thing has occurred. Your claims lack logical validity.

And your denials lack all credibility, even for a professional liar.

Iraq would be producing 3 times more oil than it does now

Certainly not a bad thing for Iraq.

and at a price the USA calls

Where does this come from?

is this not stealing the natural resources of Iraq

But you have already drawn a conclusion before such a thing has occurred. Your claims lack logical validity.

Among the best chronicles of the haziness surrounding Iraq’s oil production and exports — and the general pall of corruption that hangs over the country — comes from journalist Ed Harriman, writing in the July, 2005 issue of the London Review of Books.

You can’t really be this dumb? If the invasion had gone to plan Iraq would be producing 3 times more oil than it does now and at a price the USA calls, is this not stealing the natural resources of Iraq which belong to Iraqis and not American oil companies?

What has this to do with the US calling it’s own price on Iraqi oil?

check this out liar, it’s about unmetered oil

Duh?

But how does that support your fantasy that the US will steal oil?

We certainly don’t like major shocks to world oil prices. No one does. But jumping from the acknowledgement that oil supply plays a major role in the developed worlds’ economies, and a sinister plan to steal oil, it a bit of a stretch (to put it mildly).

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: “I don’t believe that the United States has the responsibility for reconstruction, in a sense…[Reconstruction] funds can come from those various sources I mentioned: frozen assets, oil revenues and a variety of other things, including the Oil for Food, which has a very substantial number of billions of dollars in it. [Source: Senate Appropriations Hearing, 3/27/03]

Although world petroleum consumption growth has slowed because of higher prices, projected consumption growth nevertheless remains strong at 1.7 million barrels per day (bbl/d) in 2006 and 1.9 million bbl/d in 2007

So much for the angy parrots fantasies…

I think the simple fact that you are overlooking, or more likely not prepared to admit, is that the current reduced oil production is not a part of the plan. You can tell from Rumsfeld’s quote that the expectation was that the oil would actually pay for the invasion. Thanks to the resistance that ambition has not been realised.

But there is still nothing to suggest that the US would be capable or even strategically interested in stealing the oil production. That would be hard not to notice. Even in our most gruesome imperialistic moods, we are still happy to pay a fair price.

Really? you do come out with some crap.

“In the past, dependence on oil has cost our economy dearly. Oil price shocks and price manipulation by the OPEC cartel from 1979 to 1991 cost the U.S. economy about $4 trillion, almost as much as we spent on national defense over the same time period and more than the interest payments on the national debt. Each major price shock of the past three decades was followed by an economic recession in the United States. With growing U.S. imports and increasing world dependence on OPEC oil, future price shocks are possible and would be costly to the U.S. economy.“
(Source: U.S. Department of Energy, Spring 2002.)

it would be realistic to suggest potential outputramping up to 5 or 6 million barrels per day over a period of several years.

Again, tripling oil production over several years, if it were in fact all stolen, would not cause a collapse in oil prices. World demand is increasing as fast or faster than production increases. Also, if prices were to drop, that demand would simply increase faster.

But there is still nothing to suggest that the US would be capable or even strategically interested in stealing the oil production. That would be hard not to notice. Even in our most gruesome imperialistic moods, we are still happy to pay a fair price.

Apparently the ‘unmetered’ oil production is around 2–2.5 mbpd.

The problem with your conspiracies is that it only takes one tiny link in the chain to unravel everything. It would be absolutely impossible to cover up something so massive.