Forgive me for being ignorant, but I still do not see where we went in and took the
oil. I see companies that specialize in
oil (western, eastern, and mid eastern) putting bids in and getting counter bids back. Yes American
oil companies will make money on it, but so will the Iraqis. We are not going in and claiming it as ours, but entering in a contract to get the oil that they have when they do not have a way to get it. They are entertaining offers from everyone. Not the same thing.
Let me revise my question. If Iraq was about oil, were are the tankers of oil that we have taken (and supposedly given to other countries)? I saw an article about China getting contracts to extract the oil and the US companies not laying down, but going after those same contracts. The Chinese contracts are with Iraq not the US.
One more point, if the US went in to take over the oil fields, why would we let, yes let, China get to make money extracting the oil for their own use? That is counter productive. We would declare the fields US property and sell to China.