I know, why don't we invade and conquer one of the most oil-rich nations in the world and set-up favorable contracts for our own oil companies?

 

Oh, so close.  We spent the trillion for the first part of the idea, and then lost out on many contracts to China.

 

HEy, wait a minute, I've never heard this as part of the conspiracy:  we needed to placate China somehow into continuing to buy our bonds.  Maybe IRaq was a part of this.... 

Maybe the reason the plan failed was because it was never the plan at all, except in the minds of the world’s leftists and other reflexive US haters. The US did not invade to conquer one of the most oil-rich nations in the world for the purpose of set-up favorable contracts for our own oil companies. They left decisions about developing and maintaining the oil to the Iraqis, and they decided (or more likely were bribed, that being the standard decision making process in most the 3rd world) to go in some cases with Chinese contracts this time around. I believe that the French got most of the contracts in the 1st round.

Question -- When is the Air Force going to re-engine the B-52s? Lots of potential for savings there.

Rolls Royce  offered to re-engine the B-52 with 4*RB211 (and smiths with 8*BR700) back n 2003, even then, it would have been cost efficient to re-engine the aircraft, and that was based on much lower fuel prices, and before they got heavily used in Afghanistan.

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