Would it have killed you and T to wait until Lindy responds? ;-)

Ah...no matter.

We're still pumping out 2.2 million barrels a day from Iraq and carting it away in a LOT of tankers. The one tanker a week lie wont fish...it's really a tanker a day.

2,200,000 * 60 = $132,000,000 per day
$924,000,000 per week
$3.7 Billion per month.

For 3 months output (11.1 billion) Iraq pays for yearly war salaries, food, ammo, supplies and associated expenses and naturally gasoline expenses for the Hummers, tanks, planes & choppers are way down.

;-)

2 months output pays for Halliburton and the running of everything, or 7.4 billion dollars which includes a built-in 1.4 billion yearly bonus spread between Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Condi, and Powell (Okay so Powell gets quite a bit less than the others do) for conceiving the masterplan.

That leaves 7 months output, 25.9 billion dollars as pure profit, per year.

(naturally you can subtract Sales of Iraqi crude to other nations and subtract another few billion per year in bigger military equipment expenses such as helicopter gunships, planes, tanks and assorted more expensive missiles)

We're probably looking at about 15-20 billion in cash and oil profits per year for operation IRAQ-CLEANUP. Bush didn't announce in 2002 the doubling of the 700 million barrel Strategic Petroleum reserves for nothing you know. 100's of millions of barrels need a place to be stored!