The Independent is reporting that the US is pushing through a law in Iraq that will allow Western oil companies exclusive rights to extract Iraqi oil for 30-year periods. This will be the most massive exploitation of Iraqi oil since before Iraq nationalized its oil industry in 1972. Of course we've always known that this war was all about oil, but the new law makes that crystal-clear. As the antiwar protest signs say (satirically), "How did OUR oil get under THEIR sand?" How, indeed. And now, they are all set to put their greedy and murderous hands on this oil for a long, long time.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment