US seeks legal expert to oversee plunder of Iraqi oil
Kate Randall, WSWS
As Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker testified before Congress on Monday and Tuesday, and US senators and representatives quibbled over the tactics of the US occupation of Iraq, there was no mention of the real material interests underlying the war. An article by Walter Pincus in the September 10 edition of the Washington Post, headlined "Commerce Seeks Adviser for Iraq Oil Interests," focused attention on a central objective that has motivated the four-and-a-half year colonial occupation: the plunder of Iraq’s vast oil wealth. According to an August 21 proposal by the US Commerce Department examined by Pincus, the department is seeking an international legal adviser, fluent in Arabic, "to provide expert input, when requested" to "US government agencies or to Iraqi authorities as they draft the laws and regulations that will govern Iraq’s oil and gas sector."....
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As Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker testified before Congress on Monday and Tuesday, and US senators and representatives quibbled over the tactics of the US occupation of Iraq, there was no mention of the real material interests underlying the war. An article by Walter Pincus in the September 10 edition of the Washington Post, headlined "Commerce Seeks Adviser for Iraq Oil Interests," focused attention on a central objective that has motivated the four-and-a-half year colonial occupation: the plunder of Iraq’s vast oil wealth. According to an August 21 proposal by the US Commerce Department examined by Pincus, the department is seeking an international legal adviser, fluent in Arabic, "to provide expert input, when requested" to "US government agencies or to Iraqi authorities as they draft the laws and regulations that will govern Iraq’s oil and gas sector."....
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