Comments on: Iraqi Official Doubts Kurds' Oil Deals

Baghdad's Oil Minister Says Independent Kurdish Negotiations Threaten Iraq's Sovereignty

[brianbwb-2009]

"Will we ultimately be forced to destroy these, simply to avoid turning everything over to Iran when we leave?"
Posted by alphaa10

Yes, and it will cost more than it did to build them. Bechtel and Halliburton will definitely mark up the price of this service, count on it.

[ajmarine1]

CBS_Oliver,

Nice work; I wonder is in the "six or seven totally new pages."

[cbs_oliver]

From the interview of Raed Jarrar about the oil plan he translated from Arabic:

"AMY GOODMAN: This document that you%u2019ve translated into English was originally written in Arabic?

RAED JARRAR: No, the document was originally written in English. It was sent to the Iraqi oil ministry, and some parts of it were changed, and some parts were edited, some parts were added. So when I translated it, I made my translation based on a previously leaked English copy, which is the original version of this law. The English copy leaked in mid-2006. So this -- the Arabic version now is totally based on that one. There are, I think out of the twenty-nine or thirty pages, there are around six or seven totally new pages, and there are new sections here and there."

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[cbs_oliver]

CBSOliver said, "This gas law was written in English and only translated into arabic so that it could be confirmed by the Iraqi puppet government.

Posted by alphaa10,


I found this.

Raed Jarrar, He is the Iraq Project Director for Global Exchange, and he has obtained a copy of the proposed oil law, which he translated from Arabic and posted on his website, raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com.

Posted by AJMarine1 at 10:32 PM : Sep 29, 2007

Ain''t that a laugh! Translated back into English, huh. I wonder if it translated back to the same thing.

Those propaganda guys are so very smoooooth the way they misdirect.

It was written in English originally.

[alphaa10-2009]

Thanks, AJMarine1-- this document exposes the end play of the entire Bush/Cheney Iraq debacle. Clearly, the neocons behind the Iraq invasion wanted to control the huge reserve of Iraqi oil as an asset for American strategic operations, regional and global.

Absurdly enough, ten American military superbases remain under construction in Iraq to secure oil access, along with a $1 billion embassy compound in Baghdad. Will we ultimately be forced to destroy these, simply to avoid turning everything over to Iran when we leave?

[alphaa10-2009]

jowand asked, "How ''''bout France fighting for the US Colonies independence? Or the US fighting to free Europe from Naziism?"
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False analogies. France offered to help the American colonies only after Franklin and LaFayette asked for it. After much diplomatic effort, the two managed to interest the French court sufficiently to contribute.

In WW2, every nation resisting the Axis welcomed American intervention, Britain most of all. Critically important is the fact American territory was attacked, first.

In contrast, Iraqis never asked for American "liberation", nor was America attacked by Iraq. The American invasion never was preceded by so much as a declaration of war. Iraq was a so-called "preemptive" attack justified by Bush on his specious claims about WMDs and national defense.

[ajmarine1]

CBSOliver said, "This gas law was written in English and only translated into arabic so that it could be confirmed by the Iraqi puppet government.

Posted by alphaa10,


I found this.

Raed Jarrar, He is the Iraq Project Director for Global Exchange, and he has obtained a copy of the proposed oil law, which he translated from Arabic and posted on his website, raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com.

[ajmarine1]

I don%u2019t think we can summarize it this short, because it%u2019s a very long document, around thirty pages. But majorly, there are three major points that I think we should talk about. Financially, it legalizes very unfair types of contracts that will put Iraq in very long-term contracts that can go up to thirty-five years and cause the loss of hundreds of billions of dollars from Iraqis for no cause.

And the second point is concerning Iraq''s sovereignty. Iraq will not be capable of controlling the levels -- the limits of production, which means that Iraq cannot be a part of OPEC anymore. And Iraq will have this very complicated institution called the Federal Oil and Gas Council, that will have representatives from the foreign oil companies on the board of it, so representatives from, let%u2019s say, ExxonMobil and Shell and British Petroleum will be on the federal board of Iraq approving their own contracts.

And the third point is the point about keeping Iraq%u2019s unity. The law is seen by many Iraqi analysts as a separation for Iraq fund. The law will authorize all of the regional and small provinces%u2019 authorities. It will give them the final say to deal with the oil, instead of giving this final say to central federal government, so it will open the doors for splitting Iraq into three regions or even maybe three states in the very near future.

[alphaa10-2009]

CBSOliver said, "This gas law was written in English and only translated into arabic so that it could be confirmed by the Iraqi puppet government. So far as I can tell it is patterned after the original law which attempted to give control of Iranian (Yes Iranian) oil to the English a long long time ago when Iran was occupied by the Brits..."
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A giveaway to foreign oil firms is exactly what two of three Iraqis believe is behind the Bush-imposed Oil and Gas law. The mass of Iraqis has demanded the Parliament keep Iraqi oil under Iraqi control.

Bush, however, insists on approval of jsome 33 pages of American text-- essentially privatizing Iraq''s oil assets-- as a precondition for aid to al Maliki''s government. Not surprisingly, Iraqi legislators remain very cool to the idea.

So, Iraq was never about oil? Here''s the smoking gun for those who suspected Bush and Cheney were after Iraqi oil, all along.