UPI: Iraq unions vow 'mutiny' over oil law

I missed the window for posting this to late breaking news.

Why aren't the Democrats denouncing and investigating this Hydrocarbon Law that Iraqis don't want but Bush is forcing on them?

Gen. Jay Garner, the first guy Bush appointed to run Iraq said trying to privatize their oil would lead to violence. He was right, but the Bushies are still trying to do it anyway.

The blood of our troops and the Iraqis is on the hands of the Bush administration but if the Democrats as a group fail to speak out on this economic war crime, it will be on their hands too.




More on OIL THEFT motive for Iraq War:
http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2006/09/iraq-oil-war-resources.html

it's the moral thing to do!

It's so disgusting.

I lost a good friend over this war, in the run up. He didn't know we put Saddam in the first place and he didn't know that Saddam did everything asked of him to avoid the invasion. And this was a guy with an advanced degree whose job as an engineer was to do envirnmental reports for oil companies.

He got upset with me because I suggested that Bush was after some low hanging oil.

'yeah, they killed a bunch of Iraqis, but we get the oil for a song.'

much too well.

If I could ask Democratic candidates 3 questions, I would ask about impeachment, pardons, and this:

Why do foreign corps have a right to Iraqi oil, and why are our troops dying as we are trying to force them into signing away the rights to their own oil?

and big oil has seats on council to oversea future oil deals.

Somehow, as far back as 2002, we all knew it would come down to this: Bush against the people over oil.

It will never wash off.

(See Kucinich for a notable exception.)

Thank you for keeping abreast of this.

Is there any question left who the majority of Democrats are working for? :grr:

http://www.iraqoillaw.com/

http://action.priceofoil.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=6978&t=wide.dwt

U.S. President Bush may be right: Iraq's oil law, although highly controversial, could be a "benchmark for reconciliation."

When Iraq's council of ministers last week suddenly approved the law, critics of various stripes united in opposition. Shiite and Sunni political parties alike denounced it, vowed to defeat it, even threatened to ensure Parliament can't take it up. It is seen by some as weakening the central government and giving too much to foreign companies.

Iraq depends on the sale of oil for the vast majority of its federal budget. It's infrastructure badly needs investment to boost production. A law governing the world's third largest reserves -- and a sizable amount of natural gas -- has been as elusive as security there.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/56513/

Congress adopts the president's benchmark

By the time the Congress took up the issue of funding the war in May, public awareness of and opposition to the oil law both in Iraq and the United States had grown substantially. Congress passed and the president signed the Iraq Supplemental War Spending Bill (PDF) to fund the Iraq war through the end of September.

In the Supplemental, Congress deliberately adopted the president's benchmarks, specifically and continually referencing his January 10, 2007, speech. Congress made clear its desire to hold both Bush and the Iraqi government to the commitment to meet the benchmarks. But, the words "hydrocarbon law" were never used. Instead, Congress referenced the president's benchmarks but described only the revenue-sharing component.

The Supplemental finds that "it is essential that the sovereign government of Iraq set out measurable and achievable benchmarks and President Bush said, on January 10, 2007, that 'America will change our approach to help the Iraqi government as it works to meet these benchmarks.'" And, "The president's January 10, 2007, address had three components: political, military, and economic … The United States strategy in Iraq, hereafter, shall be conditioned on the Iraqi government meeting benchmarks … including: (iii) Enacting and implementing legislation to ensure the equitable distribution of hydrocarbon resources of the people of Iraq without regard to the sect or ethnicity of recipients, and enacting and implementing legislation to ensure that the energy resources of Iraq benefit Sunni Arabs, Shia Arabs, Kurds and other Iraqi citizens in an equitable manner."

Congress stipulated that if the benchmarks were not met by September, it would cut off funds being made available to Iraq under the "Economic Support Fund." These are funds used for, among other things, U.S. reconstruction efforts in Iraq.

Congress required the Bush administration to report back on the status of the benchmarks by July 15. Thus, a flurry of effort erupted between the Bush administration and the Al-Maliki government in recent weeks to try to finally pass the law. Negotiations were rekindled and a new draft of the oil law was agreed to by the Iraqi cabinet on July 3 (only Arabic translations of the law have been released publicly to date).

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/56672/?page=2

My background links on OIL THEFT motive for Iraq War
http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2006/09/iraq-oil-war-resources.html


Hands off Iraqi oil (works directly with oil workers union):
http://www.handsoffiraqioil.org/

5 Nobel Laureates fight Iraq OIL THEFT law
http://www.nobelwomensinitiative.org/news.php?WEBYEP_DI=113

The world sees the US Oil Theft for what it is! It is Shameful congress is aiding and abetting this! Who the fuck are they fooling???

ALL but two!

:puke: