Pickens says U.S. firms 'entitled' to Iraqi oil

Boone, speaking to the newly formed Congressional Natural Gas Caucus, complained that the Iraqi government has awarded contracts to foreign companies, particularly Chinese firms, to develop Iraq's vast reserves while American companies have mostly been shut out.

"They're opening them (oil fields) up to other companies all over the world ... We're entitled to it," Pickens said of Iraq's oil. "Heck, we even lost 5,000 of our people, 65,000 injured and a trillion, five hundred billion dollars."

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Memo to T. Boone Pickens: we are entitled to nothing in Iraq because we were, and continue to be, on the wrong side of history with the invasion and subsequent occupation of this country. There is utterly no moral high ground to be claimed here.

The Chinese are doing a grand job of making deals to get their energy requirements handled; we've been dropping bombs to attempt to make that happen for the US, and you can see, if you look clearly, precisely where that has placed the US.

This country has no one but itself to blame in terms of not getting a shot at the bids for oil; this is Iraq's "payback" for our invasion and occupation.

And of course, the bitter irony is, the Bush administration thought it was "cheaper" to invade the country on a pack of lies for its oil, rather than actually negotiate for it!