Good article in the New York Daily News about Iraq’s new oil law. “Throughout nearly four years of the daily mayhem and carnage in Iraq, President Bush and his aides in the White House have scoffed at even the slightest suggestion that the U.S. military occupation has anything to do with oil” says the paper.
“The President presumably would have us all believe that if Iraq had the world’s second-largest supply of bananas instead of petroleum, American troops would still be there. Now comes new evidence of the big prize in Iraq that rarely gets mentioned at White House briefings”.
The Daily News explaions that drafts of the proposed new Iraqi oil and gas law began circulating last week on the internet. “Under the proposed law, Iraq’s immense oil reserves would not simply be opened to foreign oil exploration, as many had expected. Amazingly, executives from those companies would actually be given seats on a new
Federal Oil and Gas Council that would control all of Iraq’s reserves.
“In other words, Chevron, ExxonMobil, British Petroleum and the other Western oil giants could end up on the board of directors of the Iraqi Federal Oil and Gas Council, while Iraq’s own national oil company would become just another competitor”.
We have known for a long time, mainly through the work of Greg Muttitt at the London-based environmental group, Platform and the Iraq Oil Unions what was being proposed, but the details of the new oil law are very shocking. It becomes harder by the day not to deny that this was a war about oil.
Where is the copy of the new oil law?
It is hard to believe that the war was about anything else besides the vast oil reserves of Iraq. It’s uncomprehensible that the American people continue to stand by and allow this to go on. I am deeply disappointed in the citizens of the USA. That a nation that largely considers itself, according to polls, followers of Christ would prey upon another people for their resources is simply mind-boggling. Who can possibly explain this to me in terms that make any sense whatsoever? I welcome your comments.
For the oil law check out:
http://www.handsoffiraqioil.org/
I second Mr. Murphrey’s question. We need to read it.
What did you expect. Give the contracts to TotalFina or the Chinese,. Unfortunatly a stable energy supply is worth fighting for
I find it hard to believe that anyone would find it hard to believe that Christians would not attack a nation rich in recourses they need. Christians have a long history of killing people that do not believe what they believe or have something they want. Look at the way they killed all the Cathars just because they didn’t fall in line and worship the way they wanted them to when in reality they held the most money and were the high rollers of the times so the Christians just eradicated them by the hundreds of thousands, so why would it be so hard to believe that a nation of Christians would kill for oil, not hard for me to believe and I was born a raised a red blooded Texan….