Shell have won a massive oil contract in Iraq.

[DrDom]

Good to see that 179 British and on-going Iraqi deaths were not in vain.

[Y'man]

I think I'm missing the point.

[Townleygreen]

I am afraid that Shell these days are at least 90% a Dutch company, so I trust the Netherlands is grateful for our losses.

[mockney piers]

These days? Shell were a Dutch company that's more or less Britisish as much as nationality means anythin to a mulinational like that.

Iraq in about oil shock.

[Townleygreen]

Nonsense. They are controlled from Holland, all there admin and top jobs are over the water.

What's here is of no real importance at all.

I know some geologists who are high up in the firm.

[mockney piers]

Wow royal Dutch shell plc in 'a bit Dutch' shock? I hope you have interesting things to say about bears and woods next ;-)

[Townleygreen]

Well I havnt heard anthing interesting from you yet, you wazzock

[mockney piers]

Wazzock, lovely. Hardly drawing room material but always up for retro insults.

[mockney piers]

But to be serious, like y'man I'm struggling to see any point being made.

Oil company gets contract in oil rich client state?

Uh huh.

Err soldiers died for dubious politics? Tick.

None of this is a secret is it.

Far and away the most interesting thing to come out of Iraq was seeing how the US army, after such disastrous start at occupation learned how to win it's war, which involved jaw jaw.

Expect much the same to be true of the latest 'surge' in Afghanistan.

Then we can be wowed by someone pointing out 'BP get gas contract' or somesuch and we can all go 'gosh, I thought it was about democracy'.

Noones fooled anymore though are they.

[????]

Shell's share split is 60/40 to the Dutch and has more Brits on the board than Dutch so I don't think it's all one way traffic

[Santerme]

The tax revenue is, it pays its tax in the Netherlands

Is Bono on the Board?