What American companies are making big money with the Iraq war?
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Simple, the arms industry. Tanks, Guns, planes, bullets, first aid supplies, food makers, toilet paper makers. War is the world's biggest industry. Then after the war they will have to rebuild. That will be a Bonanza. You wait and see.
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The US government will not build a private corporation in Iraq. However, there is a strong liklihood that some sort of freiegn Wal*Mart and McDonald's will be built in Iraq.  Both already have a presence in other Mid East nations. If the security of Irawq gets better and the economy improves, then the Capitalistic American way would require that they be built in Iraq.
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That's not just Conservatives, it's the US political machine in general.  War makes money and money makes great pocket stuffers during campaign time from businesses who profit from the war.  Just follow the money....
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Well Yes...On October 30, 2006 ExxonMobil announced that “its third-quarter earnings rose to $10.49 billion, the second-largest quarterly profit ever recorded by a publicly traded U.S. company.” Royal Dutch Shell also “beat all forecasts with a 21 percent rise in underlying third-quarter profit.” \nDuring the 2000 presidential campaign, Bush criticized the Clinton Administration for allowing U.S. imports on foreign oil to reach 56% of U.S. oil consumption. Five years after President Bush announced his energy plan, U.S. imports of foreign oil have risen to 65% of U.S. consumption.
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The U.S. Government.\n\nThey make more per year than any other company in the world.\n\nIf anyone questions whether or not the U.S. government is a company, just remember that we have a C.E.O. (President is also referred to as "Chief Executive"), and we also have a Board of Directors (Congress).
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The Bush family has made all there money for years of of oil and dirty deeds. If you research it you will find there was a deal with Sadam about a pipe line to be built, And when he refused we went to war!! These oil companies are making record profits!!! No one is doing anything to stop them. And oil is part of the reason we are at war, to control more oil!!
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You should have started buying Haliburton stocks when the Bush administration started their sales pitch on invading Iraq.  Those stocks have more than tripled in value since then.
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YOU KNOW IN TEXAS THEY PUT UP SIGNS IN CHINA SHOPS SAYING 'YOU BREAK IT YOU BUY IT!" \n\nBUSH BROKE IT THEN SKIPPED TOWN AFTER CHENEY'S HALLIBURTON MADE THEIR PROFIT OFF THE AMERICAN TAX PAYERS.
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American Company that Manufactures Everything
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It is more political.  Some of them are good companies with good earnings.  the mineral area the stock prices have shot up because of high demands from countries like India and China.  That translates in to more $$ for the companies.  The unrest in the middle east is also a reason.  When Iran starts flexing her muscles and Iraq is looking troubling the price of oil goes up in expectation of oil becoming riskier or scarce to get.  much more politics than what companies are really doing.
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Definately Wal-Mart. This website breaks down each category and shows the largest companies of each as well. http://www.transnationale.org/pays/USAs.htm
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AMERICA IS ENSLAVED BY TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS. I AM SO SORRY TO SAY THIS BUT READ THE FOLLOWING FACTS AND DECIDE FOR YOURSELF:\n\n\n\nNow that we live in the age of disinformation, maybe it won't make any difference to you. The ages are getting darker and darker. And I wanted to share with you the following facts: If you agree with me please send them to as many friends of you as possible... \n\nThe transnational companies which are using American government and ARMY to sip oil from Iraq are paying back with some of the money they have earned by selling the oil they have been continuously stealing from Iraq. They will do the same in Iran and Venezuella.\n\nYou won't believe it but some transnational companies are there to force the Yahoo Corp. to delete my questions here. But I am continuously changing my name to hide it from them. Until they find me, thousands of people will have learned that America is no more controlled by its national companies. Transnational companies are a great threat both for America and the world. A transnational company is one that feels no loyalty to any nation. They don’t pay any taxes to any government and they are strong enough to overthrow governments all over the world. For the time being they are using Americans. They threat America by the fact that if they draw their capital and investments from America 25 % of its population will be jobless. \n\nThe fight and the tension between the members of the Senate is in fact a fight between the American and non-American capital owners. Right after the 9/11 the nationalistic or loyal American capital owners became a little bit stronger and passed a decree from the senate to the effect that the central government and the states are to buy their weapons from NATIONAL war industries... But at present non-American capital owners have become stronger enough to sip petroleum out of Iraq by using American ARMY. This is the horrible fact about American Politics and Bush is not loyal to America.\n\nSorry for the terrible English. Wish you prosperity and happiness. I am a mere warrior to enlighten people about facts.… Yes, they are my facts. But believe me they aren’t groundless.
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You do have a point, but we are not there for the reasons you discuss. We are there so that the buddies of Bush can make $, yes Haliburton with their ridiculous contracts, but also the big oil companies wanting to make good on their investments in the Caspian Sea area. Afterall, if you had untold billions invested, wouldn't you want to make good on it? Besides the military presence there helps protect those investments.
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Nope hes not done yet... stay bent over hes not done... Big Oil with there record profits... and the government still giving them money too... hahahaha Its just a coincidence Bush and family made there money from oil... pay no attention. And what about Cheny's company cleaning up the mess we make in Iraq... yep all a big coincidence...
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China is doing a great job right now of owning America. Everytime you shop at Walmart, China gets a big chunk of change. Even the GI Joe dolls you might buy for your kids because you want to feel "patriotic" is made in Chinese slave labor "reeducation camps."\n\nAnd who do you think is financing the war in Iraq? We are spending billions of dollars every week. Where is that money coming from? Certainly not from taxes: the government in charge right now says that the rich folks do not need to pay taxes. The money is coming in in the form of loans. And that money is coming from China and the Saudis.\n\nThe Chinese have even refused to let their currency rise to its natural level. The hold the Yuan to our dollar. It is in their best interest...right now.\n\nNotice that we can get all huffy about Iran maybe in 10 years having a nuclear weapon. Guess what, the Chinese have had them for years. \n\nAnd it is good for American business (no longer American, by the way, since most big businesses are multi-nationals) to sell things to China. Nuclear secrets from Los Alamos was just a hop and skip away from the McDonalds franchise. \n\nSo, Chinese taking over America? If you are worried, stop buying things at Walmart. First step.
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You could argue that large American conglomerates  and their strong position within the global economy operate in ways that are economically aggressive. But in terms of violent situations, look at the secret service funding and or training of Al Qaeda agents, South American dictatorships, the military actions in Vietnam, the Iran contra affairs, and obviously Iraq.
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It is NOT because of the war. It is because the people that run the oil companies are good friends of the President\n\nThe supply of oil is at an 8 year high. That means that we have more gas available today than we have had in 8 years.\nin any normal business, that would drive the price DOWN but, not oil.\n\nThe CEO of EXXON_MOBILE just got a $400 MILLION dollar bonus. That is 400,000,000 dollars in one year. That is his PERSONAL income, that dosn't even count the BILLIONS of dollars the oil companies make in PROFITS every year.\nIn the past 12 years the CEO of EXXON-MOBILE has made over  a BILLION (yes, a billion $1,000,000,000 dollars of personal income. We all paid for that by buying gas.\n\nThe reason we are paying so much is because the oil companies are greedy bastards that are making $100,000,000,000 of dollars in profits a year and our President is letting them get away with it.That is Anti-American!!!\n\nSome may argue that this is America and business people can charge what they want but in many cases, this one included, that is not really a fact. The oil business is supposed to be regulated. Not anyone can just decide to get into it. The government regulates who can join and who can't.\n\nThe fact is, we are paying WAY too much for gas and Bush'e buddys are literally "laughing all the way to the bank"\n\nAlso, we do not get most of our gas from the Middle East, that's what they try to make us believe. We only get 12-15% of our oil from the Middle East.\n40% of our oil comes from the US itself.\nWe also get a huge percent of our oil from Canada, Mexico and Venezuela.