The first inaccurancy:
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Originally Posted by CptSternn
Back in the 1990's oil was discovered in Nigeria.
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When this was shown to be an idiotic statement, the back pedalling came up with another ridiculously inaccurate statement:
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Originally Posted by CptSternn
I'm quite familiar with the conflict and its roots. Oil has been present in the 50's but major production and extraction operations did not exist until the 1990;s when removing oil from the region became profitable due to the rising cost of oil worldwide.
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Hmmm... and yet Nigeria joined OPEC in 1971 when there was an oil boom there. So by this dumbfounded logic, Nigeria was negotiating oil prices without actually selling any of it's own. And of course while Nigeria was not marketing any of it's oil or drilling for it, they headed up OPEC with a Secretary General in the mid 70s. That makes lots of sense. Boy, this guy really knows what he's talking about.
Duuuuuurh.
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Originally Posted by CptSternn
A conglomerate of oil companies including Shell, Chevron, and a few others came to Nigeria to work on extracting that oil.
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Which, according to this clown, happened in the 90s? Shell has had operations in Nigeria since the 1950s. Chevron since the 1960s. But alas, they were selling Girl Scout cookies at the time because...
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Originally Posted by CptSternn
Back in the 1990's oil was discovered in Nigeria.
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Thank you, Mr. Wizard.
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Originally Posted by CptSternn
Since then, this battle over oil lead to the conflict which was depicted in the film 'Tears Of The Sun' with Bruce Willis. They don't go into detail in the film about the conflict, but this was a war created by oil corporations in efforts to destabilise the region so they could swoop in and take control of the oil there.
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I.E. you just made that up. The film was about a military coup that mainly focused on ethnic cleansing. Nowhere are corporations mentioned. Nowhere is oil mentioned. But hey, you seemed to think Die Hard 2 involved remote controled planes when it didn't. So why can't you rewrite this movie too?
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That being said, the Nigerians depicted in the film were taken to Ireland. Co. Clare to be precise, where they still reside today. I know these men and women and have attended numerous meetings with them on this very subject.
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Bwahahahahaha! This film was about a completely fictional civil war in the 21st century. So wait, let me get this straight... the refugees of a fictional movie came to Ireland? OK. THAT makes sense!
Hey, I bet Ireland has quite a few Ewok refugees somewhere... wait, that's Co. Clare to be precise! The empire drove them off of Endor when the corporations discovered oil and bought off the tribal Ewok leaders. It was all accurately depicted in Return of the Jedi!