How do you think she pays for her shoe collection?!
Posted by buck at May 9, 2007 10:27 AMtheft and murder are the same by any other name
Posted by richard roe at May 9, 2007 10:49 AMIraq has no petrol for its own consumption?!
Don’t you find that a little hard to believe?
Did you know that the pipelines in Basra, (where Iraq’s very rich southern oil wells are located) are loading oil tankers under the protection of the Coalition forces for the benefit of – God knows who?? UNGUAGED!! (They shamelessly say the gauges aren’t working. It has been four years!)
Millions of barrels daily!!
What about us??
What about US??
http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/iraq/2007/05/you_sleepy_why.html
What did you expect? If someone in the Bush regime asserted it, it is not true. If they denied it, it is true.
It's so easy. In that respect they are very reliable.
Posted by Ralph at May 9, 2007 09:49 PMOnce U.S. military forces, and all other foreign coalition forces, are withdrawn from Iraq, who will enforce "the production sharing agreements in the draft Iraq Oil Law"?
Namely, who will enforce the desire of the Western oil companies to control a large part of Iraqi oil revenues over the next several decades?
Private "for-hire" security personnel, non-Iraqi foreigners provided by Western security firms, personnel hired to police Iraqi oil installations for the next several decades, to secure Iraqi oil profits for Western oil companies?
Cheney the other day visited Baghdad to pressure prominent Iraqis, like al-Maliki, into passing the Bush/Cheney-backed Iraqi Oil Law. This is the only
"benchmark" that matters to Bush and Cheney.
Thus, this is the only "benchmark" that Democrats might be able to use to put pressure on Bush and Cheney to get our troops out of Iraq. Why?
Because a majority of Iraqis reportedly want all foreigners, including U.S. troops, out of their country.
Thus, Democrats need to tie these two "benchmarks" together and send a funding bill to the White House stating that once the Iraqi Oil Bill becomes law in Iraq that our troops have to be withdrawn from Iraq within six months.
I bet that after (and only if) Bush signs this Democratic bill, the Iraqi legislature will pass the Iraqi Oil Law, especially if a foreign troop withdrawal date is included.
Otherwise, Bush and Cheney NOT signing this Democratic funding bill will speak volumes.
Even with the dramatic increase in the chance they'll get their much-desired blood-stained Iraqi Oil Law passed, the want our troops to remain in Iraq even more.
Which once again raises the question: who do Bush, Cheney and the Western oil company CEOs plan on having in Iraq to enforce the Iraqi Oil Law and secure their planned decade-long profits?
Because once our troops leave (if ever), then the Iraqis (even after an Oil Law has passed) may decide to cancel the Bush/Cheney-backed terms of the earlier Oil Law and instead contract with whomever they choose.
If Democrats, though, link the Oil Law passage to our troops withdrawing, then Bush and Cheney will have to explain what their real plans are for Iraq...and our troops caught in the middle over there.
Posted by The Oracle at May 10, 2007 12:43 AM