Iraq Oil Deal Gets Everybody's Attention (Hunt Oil)

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Washington Post

The oil deal signed between Hunt Oil and the government in Iraq's Kurdish region earlier this month has raised eyebrows, in no small part because it appears to undercut President Bush's hope that Iraq could draft national legislation to share revenue from the country's vast oil reserves. Making the deal more curious is that it was crafted by one of the administration's staunchest supporters, Ray Hunt.

Hunt, chief executive of the Dallas-based company, has been a major fundraiser and contributor to Bush's presidential campaigns. He also serves on the president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, putting him close to the latest information developed by the nation's intelligence agencies.

If Hunt is signing regional oil deals in Iraq, critics ask, what does he know about the prospects for a long-stalled national oil law that others don't?

Since the deal was made public, it has drawn the ire of the Iraqi national government, which has called the agreement illegal.

It also has caught the eye of maverick Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and a presidential candidate. He has called for a congressional investigation to probe the Bush administration's role in the deal as well as the implications for a national oil law in Iraq.



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/23/AR2007092300778.html?hpid=topnews

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Wow - MSM finally finds this story! Gee, that story has been here, on progressive talk radio, and the Progressive blogs for a week or two already. And way to go Represenative Kucinich - hello Hillary, Barack, John and the rest of the Dem candidates - do you know about this story and are you speaking out about it yet? Maybe you have - it is tough to follow all the candidates every day.

[Cha]

1. Yeah, we didn't bomb Iraq

to get its oil. Greedy, Oily, Perverts.

[RamboLiberal]

2. Wow and the story gets buried on page A17

Way to go Washington Post! :sarcasm:

[mallard]

13. Re: "President Bush's hope that Iraq could draft national legislation to share revenue ...

... from the country's vast oil reserves."

Who're we to say Bush doesn't mean well?

See - he wants the Iraqis in Iraq who work in the government mostly to get money for their oil! Why should we question the need to invade and create civil war? Bush sees joy and prosperity. Let's all support him and have more wars for democracy, joy and prosperity.

Sarcasm - not turned off

[spag68]

3. At least

the story is in the WP, so far no word of it in the "liberal" NYT.

[spag68]

4. sorry duplicate, some kind of error

[RufusTFirefly]

5. The Hunt Oil connection goes wayyyyy back...

Jack Ruby et al

I also think that records pertaining to far-right extremists should be examined closely, and I will mention specifically the H.L. Hunt oil family in Texas. Mr. Hunt, of course, is no longer alive, but his sons are.

I was told by two different employees of the Hunt oil family -- one of them told me that the first copy of the Zapruder film was, in fact, purchased not by Life magazine but by the Hunt oil family, and I think they should be questioned about what happened to it, because it may have contained different footage than we have ever seen.

I was told by another employee of the Hunt oil family that Mr. Hunt asked him directly to check out the security around Oswald in the Dallas jail on the Saturday after the assassination, that he did so, reported back to Mr. Hunt that there was very little security, in fact one could get close to Oswald, and of course, the next day, Jack Ruby, who had visited the Hunt oil offices on the 17th of November, shot Lee Harvey Oswald.

I would be willing to turn over to the Committee a collection of private papers from the H.L. Hunt family, which I obviously could not say how I obtained but which reveal that they conducted an ongoing investigation into what Jim Garrison was doing in 1967.

[McCamy Taylor]

6. WaPo had to cover if since a member of Congress said the "I" word

"I" standing for "Investigation". This is the "Washington" Post after all. That does not mean that they have to put it on the front page or anything. Hunt's oil deal is exactly why Dumbya and Darth Cheney want an indefinite US military presence. It will be our job as US tax payers to foot the bill to provide security (and it will be our soldiers' jobs to lay down their lives) so that greedy oil companies can pump the oil and reap all the profits from Iraq's crude without sharing a cent with the US government. Hell, they will probably get tax breaks for doing business in Iraq.

[Supersedeas]

14. maybe have been part of the plan from the very get-go

[superkia]

7. I doubt the other candidates will attack it.

Dennis Kucinich has been the candidate the has been on the offensive against the corruption, the attack on the constitution, you name it. Hell he stood alone against the war because he said it was for oil. Same reason I think they leave impeachment hidden away while Kucinich speaks out about it, some of them probably don't want to open up that can of worms because they may go down for some of their wrong doings. If we had a president that would stand up against Goliath, we would be in better shape but the media has named David as unelectable and the people seem to be following.

[Skittles]

8. that last part, you mean Dennis?

I absolutely agree

[Roland99]

9. Wonder how long until Bush pulls the "Iraq is sovereign and can do what it wants" meme

Meanwhile ignoring the calls from Iraq to kick Blackwater out of the country.

[DemoTex]

10. 'Tis the season to find the reason,

For all this blatant Bu$hco treason.

[Imagevision]

11. Hunt serves as Bush's stooge on the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board to boot...!!!

The Iraq war is the biggest hunt for oil Texas oilmen have encountered ever! So with this particular job they've enlisted the help from the military of the US of A where first and foremost this president is also an oilman. (plain & simple) whoever gets the oil, gets to take the marbles home.

[MidwestTransplant]

12. Who cares about this. Anybody hear about that ad that Moveon.org ran a few weeks ago?

or the latest with OJ?