The World's Oil Reserves by Country (billion barrels)
"[Middle East oil is] a stupendous source of strategic power, and one of the greatest material prizes in world history." U.S. State Department, 1945
1 Saudi Arabia - 260
2 Iraq - 110
3 Kuwait - 95
4 United Arab Emirates - 95
5 Iran - 92
6 Venezuela - 66
7 Russia - 49
8 Mexico - 27
9 China - 24
10 United States - 23
Is it about Oil? [BBC]
List of countries the USA has bombed since the end of World War II
"This is our calling. This is the calling of the United States of America. The most free nation in the world. A nation built on fundamental values that reject hate, reject violence, rejects murderers and rejects evil. We will not tire."
President George W Bush
"Gee, looks a bit dark" "Mr President Sir, you have to take the caps off"
China 1945-46
Korea 1950-53
China 1950-53
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-60
Guatemala 1960
Belgian Congo 1964
Guatemala 1964
Dominican Republic 1965-66
Peru 1965
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Guatemala 1967-69
Lebanon 1982-84
Grenada 1983-84
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1981-92
Nicaragua 1981-90
Libya 1986
Iran 1987-88
Libya 1989
Panama 1989-90
Iraq 1991-2002
Kuwait 1991
Somalia 1992-94
Croatia 1994 (of Serbs at Krajina)
Bosnia 1995
Iran 1998 (airliner)
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia 1999
Afghanistan 2001-02
Not including military recklessness like Italy 1998 "20 killed by US warplane in cable car" or China 2001 "Chinese military pilot killed by spy plane collision" and not including 'proxy' bombings of Iraq by Israel in 1981 using sixteen US made F15 bombers and brand new F16 fighter bombers
See also "A century of U.S. military interventions"
"Why The U.S.A. Dropped The A-Bomb on Japan"
Amazing but true Bush planned Iraq 'regime change' before becoming President
NEW "a smoking gun in the form of a mushroom cloud" - Bush
Who has Nuclear Weapons
USA
Russia
UK
France
Israel
Pakistan
(a dictatorship since Musharraf's military coup in 1999)
India
South Africa (now disarmed)
Belarus (now disarmed)
Kazakhstan (now disarmed)
Ukraine (now disarmed)
North Korea (now admits)
Who else
(has them as components to be assembled or is likely to get them soon, in order)
1 Japan
On 17 June 1974, Japanese Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata told reporters that "it's certainly the case that Japan has the capability to possess nuclear weapons but has not made them." Japan could possibly produce functional nuclear weapons in as little as a year's time.
2 Brazil
3 Taiwan
By 1974 the US Central Intelligence Agency concluded that "Taiwan conducts its small nuclear program with a weapon option clearly in mind, and it will be in a position to fabricate a nuclear device after five years or so."
Iran
Argentina
Iraq (least likely)
Source Federation of American Scientists
Countries in breach of UN resolutions
"The world cannot stand by and allow Iraq to be in flagrant breach of all [Actually both] the United Nations resolutions" Tony Blair 31st August 2002
The 64 UN resolutions Israel is in breach of since 1955
US War crimes in Iraq
Operation Northwoods
USA the World's Greatest Jailer
"We are by far the most violent nation on earth. We have the highest numbers of rape and murder in the world and incarcerate the greatest percentage of our citizens. We are the largest producer and exporter of weapons of mass destruction and have the world's biggest military budget comprising 36 percent of the total world military spending and gobbling up more than 50 percent of our own national budget" Yellow Times
The USA has the most number of people in prison in the world, at 1.725 million. Next is China with 1.4 million. However China's total population is 4.6 times that of the USA, so the number of people in prison per 100,000 of population is very different: 645 people per 100,000 in the USA, 115 per 100,000 in China. 'Unlawful combatants' held on a military base in someone else's country are not included.
Bush reading upside down
Posted www.rogerlyons.com on 6th April 2002
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