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Originally Posted by roachboy
except of course that things didn't work out.
but if they had would there be any of these problems?
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Well, whether things worked out or not is a matter of opinion, and one that perhaps is yet to be determined. And now we come back to the idea of American neocolonialism in Iraq.
US Companies Join Race on Iraqi Oil Bonanza
So what we have here is a situation---a $10 billion situation---where the key beneficiaries happen to be Houston-based oil companies. It's not that non-American companies don't have rights to these contracts, and it's not that Iraq doesn't have a say in what goes on in its own country. However, given the circumstances---you know, war, destabilization, a lack of key infrastructure, continued American military operations/occupation/decision making, etc.---it would be a bit of a stretch to say that Iraq has much choice at all. In the words of Thomas Friedman, Iraq may very well need to don the "golden straightjacket."
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and look who stands to gain the most. But surely they have no connections to anyone in the Bush administration....