Compromise on Oil Law in Iraq Seems to Be Collapsing

JAMES GLANZ, NYTimes
A carefully constructed compromise on a draft law governing Iraq’s rich oil fields, agreed to in February after months of arduous talks among Iraqi political groups, appears to have collapsed. The apparent breakdown comes just as Congress and the White House are struggling to find evidence that there is progress toward reconciliation and a functioning government here. Senior Iraqi negotiators met in Baghdad on Wednesday in an attempt to salvage the original compromise, two participants said. But the meeting came against the backdrop of a public series of increasingly strident disagreements over the draft law that had broken out in recent days between Hussain al-Shahristani, the Iraqi oil minister, and officials of the provincial government in the Kurdish north, where some of the nation’s largest fields are located...
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Dear Phillys Bennis and Leslie Cagan, I have read on ZNet the UFPJ article, Iraq: The People's Report It reads: Leslie Cagan, National Coordinator of UFPJ, says, "We feel it is essential to provide a true picture of what the shattered lives of the 25 million Iraqis look like today. For four years now we have been hearing the same false claims that the U.S. is making important gains, but they have never been true. Prepared by Phyllis Bennis and Erik Leaver, researchers at the Institute for Policy Studies, Iraq: The People's Report, takes an honest look at what this war has cost the people in Iraq and our communities here in the U.S." . Through the link provided I went to the actual report. It reads: COST TO IRAQ: IRAQ CIVILIAN CASUALTIES: ESTIMATES RANGE FROM 71,017-600,000+ This is wrong and you know it. The IBC figures are not an estimate but a count from western media. Just yesterday ZNet published the following article: Is the U.S. Responsible for a Million Iraqi Deaths?....

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