That's bigger than I woulda thunk
It is the ninth largest country in the world.
It "has the 10th highest number of horses in the world".
"We are not ashamed to say that the U.S. has strategic interests in the region," [U.S.] Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza told the [U.S.] Chamber [of Commerce]. These interests were not just military, he said: America also had an interest in ... fossil fuels and in promoting democracy in the region.
"The presence of the U.S. armed forces in this region is in no way a demonstration of our dominance, and this is in no way a repeat of great games of the 18th and 19th centuries,", according to General John Abizaid, Chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). http://jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2370450
"According to a report by the Unocal Corporation, one of America’s leading oil companies, “total oil reserves in the ... area could amount to over seventy billion barrels. Some estimates even reach two hundred billion barrels. In 1995, the region produced only 870,000 barrels a day. By 2010, western companies could push production up to around 4.5 million barrels a day; an increase of more than 500% in only fifteen years.” This is a serious amount, even when compared to the unrivalled oil power of Saudi Arabia, which has reserves approaching 260 billion barrels: double that of their closest competitor, Iran, which has ‘only’ 133 billion."
http://www.cafebabel.com/en/article.asp?T=T&Id=5165
It "has the 10th highest number of horses in the world".
"We are not ashamed to say that the U.S. has strategic interests in the region," [U.S.] Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza told the [U.S.] Chamber [of Commerce]. These interests were not just military, he said: America also had an interest in ... fossil fuels and in promoting democracy in the region.
"The presence of the U.S. armed forces in this region is in no way a demonstration of our dominance, and this is in no way a repeat of great games of the 18th and 19th centuries,", according to General John Abizaid, Chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). http://jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2370450
"According to a report by the Unocal Corporation, one of America’s leading oil companies, “total oil reserves in the ... area could amount to over seventy billion barrels. Some estimates even reach two hundred billion barrels. In 1995, the region produced only 870,000 barrels a day. By 2010, western companies could push production up to around 4.5 million barrels a day; an increase of more than 500% in only fifteen years.” This is a serious amount, even when compared to the unrivalled oil power of Saudi Arabia, which has reserves approaching 260 billion barrels: double that of their closest competitor, Iran, which has ‘only’ 133 billion."
http://www.cafebabel.com/en/article.asp?T=T&Id=5165
posted by Guambat Stew at Wednesday, November 16, 2005
1 Comments:
Don't forget Sasha Baron Cohen's propaganda campaign against them :-)
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/borat-utterly-unacceptable/2005/11/15/1132016775488.html
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