U.S. Officials Have Absolutely No Clue about Iraq's Oil Law

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/54997/

U.S. Officials Have Absolutely No Clue about Iraq's Oil Law

By Ben Lando, UPI. Posted June 23, 2007.

In Washington, lawmakers and military officials say that Iraq's new oil law is vital for the country's future. But, as one reporter learned, most have no idea what they're talking about.

A military leader fresh from Iraq is the latest U.S. government official to push a common but false claim that the controversial draft oil law will lead to a just division of the proceeds from oil sales and pave the way for reconciliation in the war-torn nation.

Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey, former commander of the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq, forwarded claims made by the Bush administration and Congress that if Iraq passes an oil law, the fighting factions there will come together because revenue from oil sales will be distributed to all.

The oil law (also known as the hydrocarbons law), however, does no such thing. A separate revenue-sharing law would decide how the oil revenue is spread around the country. It is currently being negotiated, though far behind the hydrocarbons law in the Iraqi legislative process.

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what would you expect?

pretty damn critical issues. I just wish I understood exactly where/how they are fed the bullshit information...

Does it come down from both parties? From the committee summary of each bill? From the lobbyists...?

SOMEONE is putting in a lot of effort to consistently, effectively mislead them.

Remember when Harry Reid stood up for the bankruptcy bill written by the credit card industry because he believes that "people should pay their debt"? He wound up looking stupid as all get out from our perspective, but he isn't.

Congress is made up of a lot of decent people and a bunch of grifters (R) -- the lobbyists must deluge them with lies about the content of the bills -- their staffers must be deluged, too...

:grr:

and other crap like that, or who gets the next flag off the Capitol flagpole, or where tonight's cocktail party will be, and who was at last night's.

We are SO OUT OF THE LOOP!!