Iraq: The Carve-Up Begins

[reprehensor]

Iraq: The carve-up begins

Tom Burgis
Thursday 23 June 2005

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Executives from BP, Shell, Exxon Mobil and Halliburton, Dick Cheney's old firm, are expected to congregate at the Paddington Hilton for a two-day chinwag with top-level officials from Iraq's oil ministry. The gathering, sponsored by the British Government, is being described as the "premier event" for those with designs on Iraqi oil, and will go ahead despite opposition from Iraqi oil workers, who fear their livelihoods are being flogged to foreigners. The Met will be on hand to secure the venue ahead of the conference.

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Those who have purchased their £1,200 tickets can expect access to executives from Iraq's oil ministry, including Salem Razoky, the director general of exploration.

But Iraqi oil workers are furious about the conference. "The second phase of the war will be started by this conference carving up the industry," said an outraged Hasan Juma'a, head of the Iraqi General Union of Oil Employees. "It is about giving shares of Iraq to the countries who invaded it - they get a piece of the action as a reward. The British government will back this action in order to pay its debt in Iraq."

Hasan, who represents 23,000 skilled oil workers, fears that deals struck at the conference will see profits from Iraq's massive oil reserves - the second richest in the world - lining the pockets of multinational corporations at the expense of the Iraqi people.

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Remember, they hate us for our 'freedoms'.

Our 'freedom' to bomb the hell out of them.

Our 'freedom' to steal their natural resources, for example.

[ailsagirl]

1. Greedy, corrupt, despicable jackals

How the hell much money do they need?? Greed keeps
feeding upon itself-- they keep stuffing the money
into a vacuum and that makes them want more money,
and on it goes.

They're scuttling down the wrong path. Their values
are abhorrent. All that matters to them is power and
money. Stories like that never end nicely.

[Mutley]

2. oh, but the invasion of Iraq was never about the oil!

Thats just tin foil hat thinking right there!

:eyes:

[wallwriter]

3. Ever wonder about Cheney's Energy Task Force?

No need to subpoena the list--this is it.

[Uncle Joe]

4. I had hoped that they would at least

wait til Iraq has a Constitution, but I should have known since they have such little regard about our own constitution, why wait on theirs. I believe that if foreign powers had carved a slice out of our natural resources prior to us having a lawful framework (constitution), we could not have withstood the gale like forces of resentment and bitterness that would have sprung from such a self serving greedy shortsighted asinine decision. Is common sense such an endangered species in the Bush administration that victory without taking Iraq's oil is no victory? Or do they just enjoy playing chess
with American lives?

P.S. I am not in anyway implying that we have already obtained victory or that we will, this is just one more impediment to it.