🚀 go-pugleaf

And the Shrub/Rummie/"How high, Massah!" Powell team continue to lie to the
American people....

"No One" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> Oil
> Tony Blair: 'We don't touch it, and the US doesn't touch it' MTV, 7 March
> The reality: Yesterday's draft UN resolution gives total control of Iraq's
> oil revenues to the US and UK until an Iraqi government is established
> http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=404878
>
> The United States was bombarded with questions at the U.N. Security
Council
> on Friday when it introduced a resolution to lift sanctions against Iraq
and
> give Washington and its allies control over oil revenues.
> http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2715510
>
> Iraqis on Friday welcomed U.S. and British moves to
> lift U.N. economic sanctions but called for the United Nations or an
> Iraqi interim government to take charge of the nation's oil wealth, not
> Washington.
> http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20030509_156.html
>
> A top EU official derided today pledges by the United States
> to manage Iraqi oil revenues transparently, quipping Washington was on its
> way to becoming a member of OPEC as it prepared to introduce a UN
> resolution on lifting sanctions on Iraqi oil exports.
> http://www.bday.co.za/bday/content/direct/1,3523,1343140-6078-0,00.html
>
> The Bush administration circulated a draft resolution among key Security
> Council members today calling for the elimination of more than a decade of
> international sanctions on Iraq and granting the United States broad
control
> over the country's oil industry and revenue until a permanent,
> representative Iraqi government is in place.
> The resolution, which is to be presented to the 15-nation body Friday,
would
> shift control of Iraq's oil from the United Nations to the United States
and
> its military allies, with an international advisory board having oversight
> responsibilities but little effective power. A transitional Iraqi
> government, which U.S. authorities have said they hope to establish within
> weeks, would be granted a consultative role.
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32448-2003May8.html
>
> After repeated assurances that the United States had no intention of
handing
> control of Iraq's oil reserves to American companies, the news comes out
> that a no-bid contract granted to a company controlled by Halliburton --- 
> Vice President Dick Cheney's old employer --- goes beyond emergency repair
> of Iraqi oil infrastructure to include running Iraq's oil business and
> distributing its products.
>
http://www.ajc.com/print/content/epaper/editions/thursday/opinion_e3ab20211560c1d00096.html
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