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Date: April 13, 2007 8:19:44 PM PDT
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Subject: No Withdrawal from Iraq Until the OIL is OURS
We’re stealing Iraq’s oil
by Jim Hightower
http://www.easttexasreview.com/story.htm?StoryID=4381
A bumper sticker about the Iraq War asks: “What’s our oil doing
under their sand?”
Of course, the Bushites hotly denied that their disastrous war is
about grabbing the second-largest oil reserve in the world. “It has
nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil,” barked
Donnie Rumsfeld!
Could that be yet another of their lies? Yes!
A cabal of kleptocrats –- including the Bushites, the Iraqi
cabinet, and the major oil corporations –- has drafted a new oil
law requiring Iraq to open up its fields to control by Western
corporations. This was kept secret from both the Iraqi and American
peoples, but the draft has now been submitted to the Iraqi
parliament for its approval, so details of the thievery have leaked
out.
The law would transform Iraq’s huge oil reserve from a nationally
owned resource to a privatization model, opening two-thirds of the
known oil fields to foreign control.
Instead of parliament making the major decisions over oil, an
unelected authority called the Federal Oil and Gas Council would
take charge. And guess who would have seats on this council? The
major oil corporations!
This autocratic group would then decide who gets the contracts to
extract the nation’s oil. Yes... that means Big Oil would be
approving its own bids. Also, the corporations would not have to
hire Iraqis, reinvest profits in Iraq, or share new technologies.
Foreign interests would even be allowed to divvy up the territory
now and hold their pieces of the action until after the current
civil war settles down, then move in to grab profits.
This scheme is nothing but a license for Big Oil to plunder a
nation and its people. So much for Bush & Company’s rhetoric about
“bringing democracy to Iraq.” They’re using our troops to give away
Iraq’s oil... and its sovereignty.
To learn more about this shameful ripoff, call the watchdog group
Oil Change International: 202-518-9029
See what's free at AOL.com.
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