Iraqis being blown up daily and the government we gave them finds the time to give their oil away

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Something doesn't seem right here.

Don

http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/21298/

Iraq Oil Law: Mission Accomplished?

AP is reporting: "The Iraqi Cabinet has approved a draft law to manage the country's vast oil industry and distribute its wealth among the population. Parliament will take up the measure when it reconvenes early next month after a recess.

Washington, D.C. - Institute for Public Accuracy - infoZine - "With all major parties endorsing the bill, approval is likely, although some politicians predicted a vigorous debate on some of the details.

"Many Iraqis fear the measure will effectively hand the country's major natural resources over to foreign oil companies. Supporters maintain that oil giants have the billions ... needed to upgrade the country's decrepit wells, pipelines and port." Link

Author of a piece published in the U.K.'s Guardian headlined "Iraqis Will Never Accept This Sellout to the Oil Corporations," Kamil Mahdi ( [e-mail] ) is an Iraqi academic and senior lecturer in Middle East economics at the University of Exeter.

He said yesterday: "While the country has no functioning judicial system and no effective enforcement of laws to protect human life, the cabinet and parliament are busy passing a law that gives into the interests of major foreign corporations. This is the reality of the occupation." www.commondreams.org/views07/0116-30.htm