Comments on: The ultimate prize is won http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2007/02/28/the-ultimate-prize-is-won/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:09:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Addamo. http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2007/02/28/the-ultimate-prize-is-won/#comment-86597 Addamo. Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:30:28 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2007/02/28/the-ultimate-prize-is-won/#comment-86597 It looks like the oil laws may hit a <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1594388,00.html" rel="nofollow">bump in the road</a> once laws makers in Iraq are allowed to read it. How can anyone any longer deny the invasion had anything to do with oil? This law war written in the US, approved by the oil companies, and ratified by the World Bank, before being translated into Arabic. It gives the foreign oil companies the right to decide the rates of production, and does not require them to reinvest a dime in the Iraqi economy. Even worse, is that it includes an Iraqi Federal Oil and Gas Board which will be filled by members such as Exxon Mobil and other oil giants, which means Iraq has no protection fro OPEC. This is a facsimile of Cheney's pre-invasion map of the Iraqi oil fields. It looks like the oil laws may hit a bump in the road once laws makers in Iraq are allowed to read it.

How can anyone any longer deny the invasion had anything to do with oil? This law war written in the US, approved by the oil companies, and ratified by the World Bank, before being translated into Arabic.

It gives the foreign oil companies the right to decide the rates of production, and does not require them to reinvest a dime in the Iraqi economy. Even worse, is that it includes an Iraqi Federal Oil and Gas Board which will be filled by members such as Exxon Mobil and other oil giants, which means Iraq has no protection fro OPEC.

This is a facsimile of Cheney’s pre-invasion map of the Iraqi oil fields.

]]> By: ej http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2007/02/28/the-ultimate-prize-is-won/#comment-86039 ej Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:52:53 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2007/02/28/the-ultimate-prize-is-won/#comment-86039 On the oil bill, contrast the account excerpted here with the account from NYT/Reuters, reproduced in the Fairfax press today. Two different worlds. The 'respectable' media still carries on as if it still monopolises the news and its representation. On the oil bill, contrast the account excerpted here with the account from NYT/Reuters, reproduced in the Fairfax press today. Two different worlds.
The ‘respectable’ media still carries on as if it still monopolises the news and its representation.

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