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The exploration and production contracts give firms exclusive control of fields for up to 35 years including contracts that guarantee profits for 25-years. A foreign company, if hired, is not required to partner with an Iraqi company or reinvest any of its money in the Iraqi economy. It’s not obligated to hire Iraqi workers train Iraqi workers, or transfer technology.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17193.htm



Iraq's Cabinet Backs Contentious Oil Measure

A step toward meeting a U.S. demand that the country's parliament pass such a law.
https://snipurl.com/1bjg3



Pepe Escobar: US's Iraq oil grab is a done deal

US President George W Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney might as well declare the Iraq war over and out. As far as they - and the humongous energy interests they defend - are concerned, only now is the mission really accomplished. More than half a trillion dollars spent and perhaps half a million Iraqis killed have come down to this.

https://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IB28Ak01.html



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There’s Just ‘One Bombing A Day That Discourages Everybody’
https://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/26/laura-one-bombing-day/


From Information Clearing House

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The Bushes: Delusional, Out Of Touch
https://www.infowars.net/articles/february2007/270207Bushes.htm

It came as no surprise that the Democrats revealed their real intentions all along - not to oppose funding for the war, and in doing so, supporting it. So much for the hopes many mistakenly had following the November Congressional vote. Below New York Times article folowed by a Party for Socialism & Liberation analysis on the sweet smelling poison of the Democratic Party.

Democrats Back Away From War Fund Plan https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Democrats-Iraq.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Congress and the anti-war movement
Friday, February 23, 2007
By: Andy McInerney
https://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr001=e8uqpg4kq1.app1b&page=NewsArticle&id=6452&news_iv_ctrl=1261


Informant: Carlos Rovira

From ufpj-news

Just Do What You Think You Should Do
https://www.commondreams.org/views07/0227-36.htm

Rushed by President Bush's decision to reinforce Baghdad with thousands more US troops, the Army is forgoing training designed specially to prepare the troops for the challenges of Iraq.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022707B.shtml

by Antonia Juhasz and Raed Jarrar, Foreign Policy In Focus

Iraq's new oil extractrion laws are being written to benefit foreign corporations above all.

https://ga3.org/ct/ld20pgF1HmlS/



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The American Conservative
by John Mueller

02/26/07

It is continually proclaimed that an American withdrawal from Iraq would carry grim consequences. President Bush calls it a ‘nightmare scenario,’ and Frederick Kagan predicts ‘catastrophe.’ Few Democrats disagree: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer warns that ‘precipitous withdrawal … could lead to disaster, spawning a civil war, fostering a haven for terrorists and damaging our nation’s security and credibility.’ Indeed, the aftermath of withdrawal would be problematic and messy — like the present war — but it might not be as dire as increasingly desperate war supporters maintain...

https://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_02_26/cover.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Last week, members of the Smedley Butler Brigade of Veterans for Peace organized an office occupation of Representative Ed Markey's office in Massachusetts.

https://www.counterpunch.org/leys02262007.html


From Information Clearing House

MINISTERS are negotiating multi-million-pound contracts with private security firms to cover some of the gaps created by British troop withdrawals.

https://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=299002007


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