Comments on: What is holding up the Iraqi oil law? http://priceofoil.org/2007/08/27/what-is-holding-up-the-iraqi-oil-law/ Oil Change International campaigns to expose the true costs of oil and facilitate the coming transition towards clean energy. We are dedicated to identifying and overcoming political barriers to that transition. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:09:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: George Gutekunst http://priceofoil.org/2007/08/27/what-is-holding-up-the-iraqi-oil-law/#comment-126807 George Gutekunst Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:43:46 +0000 http://priceofoil.org/2007/08/27/what-is-holding-up-the-iraqi-oil-law/#comment-126807 Marilee, This does not address your question directly but contains a fascinating analysis and chapter on the whole oil / war question. I strongly recommend it: "Afflicted Powers" -Capital And Spectacle in a New Age of War. Retort - (Verso Books, New York 2005) Retort is a collective authorship coalition in San Francisco. Keep up the struggle for Ehren Watada. G. Gutekunst, ictus9@earthlink.net Marilee,

This does not address your question directly but contains a fascinating analysis and chapter on the whole oil / war question. I strongly recommend it:

“Afflicted Powers” -Capital And Spectacle in a New Age of War.

Retort - (Verso Books, New York 2005)

Retort is a collective authorship coalition in San Francisco.

Keep up the struggle for Ehren Watada.

G. Gutekunst, ictus9@earthlink.net

]]> By: marilee jenkinson http://priceofoil.org/2007/08/27/what-is-holding-up-the-iraqi-oil-law/#comment-122143 marilee jenkinson Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:05:44 +0000 http://priceofoil.org/2007/08/27/what-is-holding-up-the-iraqi-oil-law/#comment-122143 It all makes sense to me ,the thievery. I just wish I could find a way to not drive a car or find a way to make sense of having anything to do with petroleum products and/or outsourced products of any kind. Must look carefully at all of this. I am a lightweight living very simply and frugally so i do not feel too guilty. I like to go to the CollateralRepairProject.com and find a slot to help the people in Iraq. Right now I study as best as I can. Just got a laptop and have time to study. Will be up in Tacoma for the rallies in support of Lt. Ehren Watada on October 9. I attended in February and the War Tribunal in January where Antonia Juhasz spoke about global privatization. Am presently reading the Bush Agenda Invading the World One Economy At a Time. I really need to get with a solid program to inform the local people here where i live and note that the radio talk shows pull the plugs on callers-in who barely mention the word "oil" as the truthful reason behind so much suffering that is around Iraq and other countries throughout the world in the name of free trade and all that jazz. I do feel shame and wonder how we get through this one. Please help? Please can someone inform me how much oil is`coming out of Iraq right now and in respect to how much was coming out last year when Antonia's book was published? Andcompared to before the occupation began in March, 2003? It all makes sense to me ,the thievery. I just wish I could find a way to not drive a car or find a way to make sense of having anything to do with petroleum products and/or outsourced products of any kind. Must look carefully at all of this. I am a lightweight living very simply and frugally so i do not feel too guilty. I like to go to the CollateralRepairProject.com and find a slot to help the people in Iraq. Right now I study as best as I can. Just got a laptop and have time to study. Will be up in Tacoma for the rallies in support of Lt. Ehren Watada on October 9. I attended in February and the War Tribunal in January where Antonia Juhasz spoke about global privatization. Am presently reading the Bush Agenda Invading the World One Economy At a Time. I really need to get with a solid program to inform the local people here where i live and note that the radio talk shows pull the plugs on callers-in who barely mention the word “oil” as the truthful reason behind so much suffering that is around Iraq and other countries throughout the world in the name of free trade and all that jazz. I do feel shame and wonder how we get through this one. Please help?

Please can someone inform me how much oil is`coming out of Iraq right now and in respect to how much was coming out last year when Antonia’s book was published? Andcompared to before the occupation began in March, 2003?

]]> By: Dave Kisor http://priceofoil.org/2007/08/27/what-is-holding-up-the-iraqi-oil-law/#comment-117961 Dave Kisor Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:49:54 +0000 http://priceofoil.org/2007/08/27/what-is-holding-up-the-iraqi-oil-law/#comment-117961 Call this pile of fetid legislation by its real name, the Great Iraqi Oil Theft Law. When the first wave of troops saw there were no weapons of mass destruction and were instructed to protect the oil ministry, they knew they had been lied to. Many of them have asked for the truth, but from the Bush administration, that is something they will never get. Unfortunately this present administration has no respect for Americans and even less for the rest of the world. Iraq should question the validity of the 9/11 story. Call this pile of fetid legislation by its real name, the Great Iraqi Oil Theft Law. When the first wave of troops saw there were no weapons of mass destruction and were instructed to protect the oil ministry, they knew they had been lied to. Many of them have asked for the truth, but from the Bush administration, that is something they will never get. Unfortunately this present administration has no respect for Americans and even less for the rest of the world. Iraq should question the validity of the 9/11 story.

]]> By: Kathy http://priceofoil.org/2007/08/27/what-is-holding-up-the-iraqi-oil-law/#comment-116918 Kathy Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:11:38 +0000 http://priceofoil.org/2007/08/27/what-is-holding-up-the-iraqi-oil-law/#comment-116918 I am in complete agreement with your comments, and I would go one step further in saying that Dick Cheney is the major force pushing the Iraqi Parliament to pass the Iraqi Oil Law. The energy commission meetings he held are still "secret", and we may never know who actually attended those meetings, although we can guess, and just what effect those meetings have had on the reasons behind the war continuing. Again, we can only speculate. But I believe one thing is certain, and that is if we do not hold this administration accountable, through the impeachment process, for taking the U.S. to war in Iraq through deception, then we have only ourselves to blame. "We the people" have to take our government back from those who are taking away our civil liberties. I urge anyone who reads this to call your elected officials and demand impeachment proceedings begin immediately. If this isn't done, what will keep the next President, Vice President, etc., from declaring "executive privelege" for whatever actions they want to take? It is easy to grant someone power, but very difficult to take it away once it has been given. I am in complete agreement with your comments, and I would go one step further in saying that Dick Cheney is the major force pushing the Iraqi Parliament to pass the Iraqi Oil Law. The energy commission meetings he held are still “secret”, and we may never know who actually attended those meetings, although we can guess, and just what effect those meetings have had on the reasons behind the war continuing. Again, we can only speculate. But I believe one thing is certain, and that is if we do not hold this administration accountable, through the impeachment process, for taking the U.S. to war in Iraq through deception, then we have only ourselves to blame. “We the people” have to take our government back from those who are taking away our civil liberties. I urge anyone who reads this to call your elected officials and demand impeachment proceedings begin immediately. If this isn’t done, what will keep the next President, Vice President, etc., from declaring “executive privelege” for whatever actions they want to take? It is easy to grant someone power, but very difficult to take it away once it has been given.

]]> By: Zainab Fouad http://priceofoil.org/2007/08/27/what-is-holding-up-the-iraqi-oil-law/#comment-116594 Zainab Fouad Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:12:13 +0000 http://priceofoil.org/2007/08/27/what-is-holding-up-the-iraqi-oil-law/#comment-116594 If the US administration understood the Iraqi mentality to begin with, they would never had occupied the land. They caused a revolution. But I guess Bush and his buddies figured "divide and conquer" was the way to get what they wanted. Our government talks about the threat of "terrorism" when the reality is....they are the worst of the terrorists. The Iraqi's have been already stripped of their dignity, their families, their land as they knew it.....and now we want to strip them of their main (and perhaps only) physical resource? When and where does it stop? The Iraqi people are becoming more informed with time......and so they will be fueled for an upheaval when they totally understand how they are being manipulated once again. For the sake of God and human compassion....can we stop abusing and terrorizing them?????? If the US administration understood the Iraqi mentality to begin with, they would never had occupied the land. They caused a revolution. But I guess Bush and his buddies figured “divide and conquer” was the way to get what they wanted. Our government talks about the threat of “terrorism” when the reality is….they are the worst of the terrorists. The Iraqi’s have been already stripped of their dignity, their families, their land as they knew it…..and now we want to strip them of their main (and perhaps only) physical resource? When and where does it stop? The Iraqi people are becoming more informed with time……and so they will be fueled for an upheaval when they totally understand how they are being manipulated once again. For the sake of God and human compassion….can we stop abusing and terrorizing them??????

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