Sunday, August 19, 2007

What is Uniting Iraqi's? The proposed American oil law, what else?

Alternet reporting on the Iraq Hydro-Carbon laws :
Despite the ethnic bloodshed in Iraq, majorities of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds are united in their disapproval of the proposed oil laws that Washington and Big Oil are pushing.
If passed, the Bush administration's long-sought "hydrocarbons framework" law would give Big Oil access to Iraq's vast energy reserves on the most advantageous terms and with virtually no regulation.......

Subhi al-Badri, head of the Iraqi Federation of Union Councils, said last month that the "law is a bomb that may kill everyone." Iraq's oil "does not belong to any certain side," he said, "it belongs to all future generations."............

Al Jazerra reports:

A statement, signed by 419 Iraqi oil experts, economists and intellectuals, expresses grave concern that the newly proposed law would deprive Iraq from its most vital natural resource, oil, and give foreign oil companies ultimate domination over Iraq's oil wealth.

Iraq's intellectuals demand a fundamental modification to the proposed law, and a referendum, the statement said.


The passage of these oil Laws is a key component of the neo-conservative agenda. The privatization of Iraq's main natural resource was obviously the key reason why we went into Iraq. Experts, politicians and now the Iraqi citizens are realizing what is going on under occupation, grand theft! A recent poll conducted by Oil Change International (great site) show that the majority of the Iraqi people prefer the oil to remain state owned as opposed to foreign and feel that their government is not sharing enough information regarding the Oil laws.
See the Poll Here

Main stream American media has been ignoring this key issue in Iraq and instead for the last 2 weeks on a single op-ed written by Michael O’Hanlon and Ken Pollack(Washington post), 2 individuals who have always supported Bush's Iraqi efforts. The media spin has been " Two of Bush's critics admit their is progress in Iraq". Of course this is nonsense, both writers while not conservatives, have defiantly not been "Bush critics".

This is the important news because regardless of how the "surge " is doing militarily, politically this is a huge problem. The Iraqi government is becoming less and less legitimate in the eyes of the Iraqi people. Apparently this version of the the Iraqi government is on it's last legs; and where does this leave the troops? Will we stay in Iraq indefinitely until the Iraqi Parliament signs this law against the Iraqi people's wishes or will we have to prop up a new Iraqi government, more capable of selling the theft of oil to the Iraqi people? Meantime, the Iraqi people in the middle of a Civil War are starting to Unite against the American backed Iraqi government and the American occupation itself.........

It was a war for oil from the start, and this nasty business deal is the exact reason why our troops are stuck in a quagmire occupation four years later..........



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