The Oil Truth and Nothing but the Oil Truth
Munir Daair* , Gulf News
...Everything else was just a charade for America, as it quietly drafted Iraq's new oil law that will further enrich Bush and Cheney’s oil buddies for the next 30 years. In fact, a representative of the American company, BearingPoint, has been working in the US embassy in Baghdad to "assist" with the law, which is to be approved by Iraq's parliament. This law - drafted in Washington and approved by U.S. oil companies before Iraqis themselves even heard of it - gives unprecedented partnership "rights" to American and Western oil giants. An emotional Iraqi exile I happened to sit next to in a Paris café told me recently: "Under Saddam, it was impossible for any foreign company to get such a deal. This is enslavement of our country by those who say they came to liberate us. Do they think we will allow them to extract our oil and sell it on such terms? This is theft from a nation under siege, exploiting our weakness at the point of a gun...
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...Everything else was just a charade for America, as it quietly drafted Iraq's new oil law that will further enrich Bush and Cheney’s oil buddies for the next 30 years. In fact, a representative of the American company, BearingPoint, has been working in the US embassy in Baghdad to "assist" with the law, which is to be approved by Iraq's parliament. This law - drafted in Washington and approved by U.S. oil companies before Iraqis themselves even heard of it - gives unprecedented partnership "rights" to American and Western oil giants. An emotional Iraqi exile I happened to sit next to in a Paris café told me recently: "Under Saddam, it was impossible for any foreign company to get such a deal. This is enslavement of our country by those who say they came to liberate us. Do they think we will allow them to extract our oil and sell it on such terms? This is theft from a nation under siege, exploiting our weakness at the point of a gun...
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