Iraq in ONE sentence: We're not leaving until Iraq signs over their oil to Dick's Buds

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Mon Jul-09-07 04:39 PM
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Iraq in ONE sentence: We're not leaving until Iraq signs over their oil to Dick's Buds

Edited on Mon Jul-09-07 04:56 PM by jackstraw45

Although the Corporate media would NEVER report it this way, isn't this what is all comes down to? Cheney's secret energy task force plots Iraq war in 2001--->administration lies way into war on the back of 9/11----->occupation until oil law hands resources to task force buddies---->US occupies nation for 50 years as Oil buddies soak up the riches???

Document Says Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force

By Dana Milbank and Justin Blum
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, November 16, 2005; A01

A White House document shows that executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001 -- something long suspected by environmentalists but denied as recently as last week by industry officials testifying before Congress.

The document, obtained this week by The Washington Post, shows that officials from Exxon Mobil Corp., Conoco (before its merger with Phillips), Shell Oil Co. and BP America Inc. met in the White House complex with the Cheney aides who were developing a national energy policy, parts of which became law and parts of which are still being debated."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501842_pf.html
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AP: Group: Cheney Task Force Eyed on Iraq Oil

July 18, 2003

Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force appeared to have some interest in early 2001 in Iraq's oil industry, including which foreign companies were pursuing business there, according to documents released Friday by a private watchdog group.

Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group, obtained a batch of task force-related Commerce Department papers that included a detailed map of Iraq's oil fields, terminals and pipelines as well as a list entitled "Foreign Suitors of Iraqi Oilfield Contracts."

The papers also included a detailed map of oil fields and pipelines in Saudi Arabia and in the United Arab Emirates and a list of oil and gas development projects in those two countries.

The papers were dated early March 2001, about two months before the Cheney energy task force completed and announced its report on the administration's energy needs and future energy agenda.
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http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/oil/2003/0718taskforce.htm

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"One thing begs the question; why the rush when it comes to enacting the oil law and setting a deadline for the need to have it done?...The only clear answer comes from recent American officials’ statements. In January 2005, the international Monetary Fund stated that the IMF staff emphasizes the need for pressures towards structural monetary reform, which include urgently drafting a new oil law. In July 2006, U.S. Secretary of Energy Sam Bodman confirmed that Iraqis need to enact a new hydrocarbon law, according to which foreign companies could invest. Condoleezza Rice too said, in October 2006, that what Iraqis need is the hydrocarbon law because petrol is the largest resource of income to this government and that all Iraqis must believe that oil will be used for their own interests, not for the interests of the sectarian parties! It seems Condi does not have the faintest idea about Iraqis’ concerns....

The Baker (Republican) -Hamilton (Democrat) Commission, which represents the institutional side of the American government, had not forgotten to touch on this issue. Their December 2006 report says, “The U.S. government should provide technical assistance to the Iraqi government to prepare a draft oil law that defines the rights of regional and local governments and creates a fiscal and legal framework for investment. Legal clarity is essential to attract investment.” It also says, “The United States should encourage investment in Iraq’s oil sector by the international community and by international energy companies.”

More: http://www.al-ghad.org/2007/02/20/discussion-on-the-iraq-oil-law/