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Originally Posted by irateplatypus
i don't know even where to begin illustrating the flaws in these statements except to say that the oil sharing measures expected by the coalition are aimed at providing stability among iraqi groups, not to enrich foreign corporations. the oil fields don't fall along neat tribal/ethnic/sectarian lines. the legislation is meant to distribute the nation's wealth equitably to pre-empt future regional disputes.
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Irate...please illustrate the flaws in Elph's statement
("Bush will not do so under any circumstances as long as the oil sharing legislation is not passed. The Iraqi oil unions are speaking out, both in the US and elsewhere, revealing the rape of Iraqi resources that this "war" was all about.)
Cheney's secret Energy Task Force of oil company CEOs was looking at dividing up Iraq's oil fields even before our invasion:
These are documents turned over by the Commerce Department, under a March 5, 2002 court order as a result of Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit concerning the activities of the Cheney Energy Task Force. The documents contain a map of Iraqi oilfields, pipelines, refineries and terminals, as well as 2 charts detailing Iraqi oil and gas projects, and “Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts.” The documents are dated March 2001
http://www.judicialwatch.org/iraqi-oil-maps.shtml
The draft oil law that many (Kurd, Shia and Sunni) within Iraq oppose would de-nationalize Iraq oil fields (something no other country in the Middle East would ever consider) and allow two-thirds of the oil fields to be developed by private oil companies....and would also allow foreign oil company officials to serve on the newly-created Iraqi Federal Oil and Gas Council, the decision-making body on investments in Iraq oil development. These provisions were written in Washington DC.
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As the Bush administration and Congress press Baghdad to pass an oil law, a parliamentarian visiting Washington wants them to back off the legislation viewed by many to be too friendly to oil companies and detrimental to Iraq.
"The people as well as all the members of Parliament believe that this law is not only for robbing Iraq of its oil wealth but also for the division of Iraq," said Mohammed al-Dynee, a member of the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue's contingent in the Parliament...
http://www.upi.com/Energy/Analysis/2...iraq_oil/5850/
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WASHINGTON, July 6 As Iraq's oil law this week was sent to Parliament, one of its original authors fears it will be passed -- to the detriment of the country.
Tariq Shafiq, a London and Amman, Jordan-based oil consultant born and raised in Iraq, says backroom compromises will lead to the mismanagement of the country's oil sector and open it too much to foreign, private companies -- all enshrined in the oil law he originally wrote.
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"The policy of the neo-conservative politicians prior to and post-invasion of Iraq has been the privatization of Iraq's oil industry," Shafiq alleges, adding international oil companies will then access the sector with production-sharing agreements, one of the most company-friendly contract models in the industry. The neo-conservatives "called for Iraq's withdrawal from OPEC and an open oil production policy to rival Saudi Arabia and break the OPEC cartel," he said.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/80070.html
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Bush clearly wants the law passed while the central government is at its weakest and while US influence is still present...a callous and immoral attempt at exploitation.