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Reported today on Akhbar Alkhaleej newspaper

An Iraqi MP preferred to remain anonymous told the newspaper that highly confidential negotiations took place by representatives from American oil companies, offering $5 million to each MP who votes in favor of the Oil and Gas law.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19246.htm



Bush Won't Ban Permanent Bases Pushes For Iraqi Oil Law

By Aaron Glantz

"We've got the Bush administration pushing aggressively for an (Iraqi) law that would give oil companies 20- to 25-year contracts for oil in Iraq and if they were to be at work for an extended length of time, they would need security," she said.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19247.htm



Iraq failure equals success for neocons

The Americans have an excuse to have permanent bases as long as the insurgency lasts; a largely state-run economy has been opened to foreign capital; America has control of large oil reserves; the Middle East has a wedge of US military to control and threaten any uppity Islamic state that dares threaten its interests...

https://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,2249454,00.html


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=permanent+bases
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Aaron+Glantz

https://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7101/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

https://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0131-10.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+families
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=MFSO

https://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10842


Informant: John Calvert



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vermont

A federal report released Tuesday says the Army Corps of Engineers charged the government hundreds of millions of dollars for supervising projects in Iraq that have been identified as having failed or fallen behind schedule specifically because oversight was lax or nonexistent.

https://snipurl.com/1ymj3


From Information Clearing House

Increased Iraqi oil revenues stemming from high prices and improved security are piling up in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York rather than being spent on needed reconstruction projects, a Washington Times study of Iraq's spending and revenue figures has shown.

https://snipurl.com/1ymj0


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil

CounterPunch

01/29/08

Fallujah is more difficult to enter than any city in the world. On the road from Baghdad I counted 27 checkpoints, all manned by well-armed soldiers and police. “The siege is total,” says Dr Kamal in Fallujah Hospital as he grimly lists his needs, which include everything from drugs and oxygen to electricity and clean water...

https://counterpunch.org/patrick01292008.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fallujah
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn

Video

The Iraq war has taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and thousands of U.S. military personnel. It is also costing $720 Million dollars each day - dollars that could be spent in much more constructive ways.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19233.htm