Ask Dems: We gave Big Oil Iraq, what did we get back?
I addressed this to Sam Husseini, because he has gotten in the face of top Democrats and Republicans and asked them about things like what they think of letting Big Oil write the law that gives them...
View ArticleZOGBY POLL: 73% say Iraq's oil a factor in the war
A couple of observations on this:the number that don't believe is pretty close to those still support Bush and think yard gnomes are idols to worship false gods.more seriously, our elected leaders are...
View ArticleBlogger scoops NY Times on Iraq Oil Law
Blogger translates leaked copy of secret Iraq oil law draftThis should be a major story. Iraq-born blogger Raed Jarrar has obtained a leaked copy of Iraq's new oil law. You also can get a look at this...
View ArticleDirtbag Dick gets the Iraq Oil!
Pay no attention to the oil companies hiding behind the fog of war! Cheney’s done it. Pepe Escobar Asian Times writes:.....only now is the mission really accomplished. More than half a trillion...
View ArticleBUSH VICTORY: OIL law forced on Iraqis gives oil companies veto
Rather than directly forcing production sharing agreements on Iraqis which would give the bulk of the oil profits to oil corporations, they put oil company executives on the council that approves oil...
View ArticleIraqi scholars & pols say REJECT Bush-coerced hydrocarbon law
The guy at Hands off Iraqi oil makes it a lot easier for me to find this stuff.Scholars, politicians, and oil technocrats got together at a conference and were pretty unified in their opposition to the...
View ArticleKucinich Seeks to Strip Oil Law Benchmark from Supplemental
Robert Naiman, Just Foreign Policy, March 14, 2007Almost all of the progressive criticism so far of the supplemental appropriation for the war being considered by the House could be organized under the...
View Articleal-Maliki fears U.S. will oust him if oil law not passed
From the AP:BAGHDAD: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki fears the Americans will withdraw support for his government — effectively ousting him — if parliament does not pass a draft oil law by the end of...
View ArticleIraqi Oil Workers Unions vs new Iraqi Oil Law
The Iraqi government, with very strong US backing, is trying to change the national oil laws. The Iraqi Parliament is 'discussing' the law now, and is trying to pass it.Currently, the oil...
View ArticleWhat Does Iraq's New Hydrocarbon Law Say About an Invasion?
Here's a link to the OMNI version oil law story. A lot of critics say this law delivers evidence that the invasion was about oil, but supporters say the law brings Iraq into world oil marketplace.
View ArticleThe Iraq parliament bombing: it's Game On for Iraq's oil
[cross posted at Over the Line, Smokey!]Today, the surge failed. And its not about casualties. Forget about casualties. Killed, maimed Iraqis and Americans mean nothing to the Bushies.Iraqi casualties...
View ArticleIraq's doubled OIL reserves & Cheney's 2001 map of Iraq's oil
The doubled estimated oil reserves in Iraq recently reported are right where Dick Cheney was looking at a map with oil company execs during his energy task force back in 2001. The oil law Bush is...
View ArticleYour Money is Going into Cheney's Pockets
When the Iraq invasion/war/occupation/clusterfuck began, there were smart people who told us from the get-go: this is about oil.Forget the shit about fighting terrorists, forget the "protecting...
View ArticleOdd Thoughts: Another Bush-Chaney Scandal Begging for Investigation
We have not yet been treated to a congressional investigation of the secret meetings Vice-President Cheney held with the heads of major British and American oil companies at the start of President...
View ArticleIt's the oil, stupid.
Okay, I know I'm getting to sound like a broken record, but I simply cannot take it anymore. The whole discussion about ending the "war" in Iraq has for me reached a level of absurdity that is making...
View ArticleIraq Oil Law DOA - Kurds Making Own Deals & Sunnis Object to Foreign Control
Our only friends in Iraq, the Kurds are signing their own contracts for newly discovered fields with Norwegian and Turkish oil companies. They don't like the unfavorable terms of the draft oil law and...
View ArticleThe truth about Iraq's oil law
[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally]check this from today's nyt... Iraqi Blocs Opposed to Draft Oil Bill Kurdish and Sunni Arab officials are concerned over a draft of a bill...
View ArticleCheney's Middle East Trip and the Iraq Oil Law (Update)
[Update just below fold]Vice President Cheney is off on one of his trademark "shrouded in mystery" trips to the Middle East today:US Vice President Dick Cheney leaves Tuesday on a four-country visit of...
View ArticleA power addiction (or why George wants Wolfie to stay)
[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally]is it any wonder the white house is still, as of this morning, fighting to keep wolfowitz in his job...? read on...[more after the fold]
View ArticlePutin 1, Cheney ?
For a frustrating number of years, Dick Cheney had his wishful eye on a pipeline that could move East Caspian hydrocarbons to market across Afghanistan and Pakistan and away from Russia and China....
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