Questions Without Answers Those So-Called Oil Contracts in Iraq

JEAN GERARD, CounterPunch

So-called "oil contracts" have been on the table of the Iraqi Parliament for months, and the fluff of lies printed about them in U..S. media is nauseating. Every report I have been able to find in the general media has been long on inferences and short on facts. The result is that the average American knows nothing about them, and even those of us who try to follow important policy matters cannot find out more than the simple assertion that there are such things as Production Sharing Agreements, and that their signing is one of the "benchmarks" the US has put up as a requirement for our withdrawal of military forces. These "contracts" are literally a matter of life and death in Iraq, admitted by Prime Minister Maliki himself to be "the most important law in Iraq."...

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