Iraqi hydrocarbon prize of U.S. invasion in danger

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Iraqi-hydrocarbon-prize-of-by-Nicola-Nasser-Contracts_Gold_Iceberg_Iraq-140621-248.html

Iraqi hydrocarbon prize of U.S. invasion in danger
By Nicola Nasser
OpEdNews Op Eds 6/21/2014 at 13:24:35

Excluding "boots on the ground" and leaving combat missions to local and regional "partners," President Barak Obama and his administration say the United States keeps "all options on the table" to respond militarily to the terrorists' threat to "American interests" in Iraq, which are now in "danger."

Similarly, former UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, on TV screens and in print has recently urged western governments to "put aside the differences of the past and act now" and to intervene militarily in Iraq "to save the future" because "we do have interests in this."

Both men refrained from indicating what are exactly the "American" and "western" interests in Iraq that need military intervention to defend, but the major prize of their invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the country's hydrocarbon assets. There lies their "interests.

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The unfolding collapse of the U.S. proxy government in Baghdad has cut short a process of legalizing the de-nationalization of the hydrocarbon industry in Iraq, which became within reach with the latest electoral victory of the Iraqi prime minister since 2006, Noori al-Maliki.