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WillYourVoteBCounted Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 12:16 PM
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Iraq Panel: Privatize the Oil!
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Now it comes out! Its always about screwing them out of the oil.
If it is privatized, guess who makes the most money off of the oil, it aint Iraq.

The fact that infamous "election fixer" Baker is involved signals that this panel
and its recommendations would be corrupt.


No wonder he wants ALL of the recommendations to be accepted.


Oil for Sale: Iraq Study Group Recommends Privatization
By Antonia Juhasz 07 Dec 2006

President Bush hired an employee from the U.S. consultancy firm Bearing Point Inc. over a year ago to advise the Iraq Oil Ministry on the drafting and passage of a new national oil law. As previously drafted, the law opens Iraq's nationalized oil sector to private foreign corporate investment, but stops short of full privatization. The ISG report, however, goes further, stating that "the United States should assist Iraqi leaders to reorganize the national oil industry as a commercial enterprise." ...If these proposals are followed, Iraq's national oil industry will be privatized and opened to foreign firms, and in control of all of Iraq's oil wealth.

http://www.alternet.org/story/45190
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