This video from the USA says about itself:
Bush’s buddy’s oil deal destroys revenue sharing agreement in Iraq.
Rachel Maddow speaks on Count Down about Hunt Oil’s ties to Bush and effects on Iraq.
By David Walsh in the USA:
Bush administration encouraged oil deal in Kurdistan, undermining Iraqi “national unity”
4 July 2008
The Bush administration publicly criticized a deal made between Hunt Oil of Dallas, Texas and the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq last September for supposedly undermining Iraqi “national unity,” while privately officials were facilitating the oil firm’s activities, documents released this week by the US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform reveal.
Hunt Oil, whose chief executive Ray Hunt has been a major backer of George W. Bush, signed the agreement with the Kurdish government on September 8, 2007 to explore and develop oilfields in the region.
No national law on the division of oil revenues had been passed at the time (and still has not been), and the agreement outraged Iraqi government officials fearful that Baghdad would be cut out of its share of lucrative oil profits by such arrangements and that the country might well break up under centrifugal pressures. At the time Iraq’s oil minister, Hussein al-Shahristani, called the deal “illegal.”
See also here.
Naomi Klein on Iraqi oil: here.
Rising oil prices: here.
McClellan: Iraq’s Oil ‘Certainly Played Heavily’ In Cheney’s Desire To Launch War: here.
US election: Obama denies flip-flop over policy on Iraq withdrawal: here.
In Iraq, US military kicks photographer out of embed program for reporting the news.
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Bush Estimates the USA is about “Two Decades” Old
Posted by: “frankofbos” FrankOfBos@yahoo.com
Fri Jul 4, 2008 4:03 am (PDT)
On a recent July 4th, President Bush estimated the USA to be about “two
decades” old. In other past Independence Day news, No Korea test
launches a long-range missle today, prompting renewed questions as to
the Bush ‘logic’ of invading Iraq, not North Korea. Also, Congress
finally balks on new Bush tax cuts in light of Bush’s huge deficits.
http://poorgeorgesalmanac.com/?p=325
Today’s categories: Bushisms, Deficit Mismanagement, Foreign Policy
Foul Ups, Iraq, Revolt of the GOP & Insiders, The Millionaire’s Ally|
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New York City Labor Against the War (NYCLAW)
Digest
NYCLAW Website
End the Occupation of Iraq — Bring the Troops Home Now
AFGHANISTAN
U.S.-LED AIR RAID KILLS 22 AFGHAN CIVILIANS
“The civilians were evacuating the district as they were told by the U.S.-led troops to do so because they wanted to launch an operation against the Taliban,” he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-afghan-violence.html
2,200 MARINES’ AFGHAN TOUR EXTENDED
The Pentagon has extended the tour of 2,200 Marines in Afghanistan, after insisting for months the unit would come home on time. . . . In the last two months, the violence in Afghanistan has led to more U.S. and coalition casualties there than in Iraq, and June was the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Afghanistan since the war began in late 2001.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan4-2008jul04,0,4406004.story
US VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFGHANISTAN
The war on terror has led to widespread civilian deaths, often at the hands of unaccountable units led by the CIA and other foreign intelligence agencies. These foreign intelligence units “operate” with “impunity” in Afghanistan.
http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article779.html
ANTIWAR LABOR
SHIPPING COMPANIES FILE CHARGES OVER MAY DAY ANTI-WAR STRIKE
The longshore action on International Workers Day was the first ever US strike against war, closed all 29 West Coast ports and inspired a solidarity stoppage in the Iraqi Port of Basra. The PMA claims it constituted an “unlawful secondary boycott”.
http://libcom.org/news/shipping-companies-file-charges-over-may-day-anti-war-strike-02072008
IRAQ
OBAMA MAY CONSIDER SLOWING IRAQ WITHDRAWAL
Sen. Barack Obama raised the possibility of slowing a promised gradual, 16-month withdrawal from Iraq if he is elected president, saying that Thursday he will consult with military commanders on an upcoming trip to the region and “continue to refine” his proposals. . . . Obama’s comments on Thursday capped a shift in tone that has been occurring since June, and it fit with his broader efforts to appeal to moderate and independent voters. Throughout the past week, Obama has been stressing values as he journeyed through conservative regions of swing states: patriotism in Independence, Mo.; faith-based social services in rural Ohio; and service in Colorado Springs.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070303919.html
THE REAL STATE OF IRAQ
By now, summer of 2008, excess deaths from violence in Iraq since March of 2003 must be at least a million. . . . Only, the US is 11 times more populous than Iraq, so 310,000 Iraqi corpses would equal 3.4 million dead Americans. So proportionally it would be like firebombing to death everyone in Chicago.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20157.htm
NYT IRAQ WAR ‘DEBATE’ EXCLUDES CRITICS
The New York Times’ “Week in Review” has now offered two panels of opinion on the Iraq War–one on March 16 pondering the fifth anniversary of the invasion, the other on May 4 commemorating George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech–that completely excluded the views of those who opposed the war in 2003.
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3567
THE ERA OF OIL WARS
The US maintains 737 military bases in 130 countries under cover of the “war on terror” to defend American economic interests, particularly access to oil. The principal objective for the continued existence and expansion of Nato post-cold war is the encirclement of Russia and the pre-emption of China dominating access to oil and gas in the Caspian Sea and Middle East regions. It is only the beginning of the unannounced titanic global resource struggle between the US and China, the world’s largest importers of oil (China overtook Japan in 2003).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/29/oil.oilandgascompanies
IRAN
AUGUST 2: DEMOS IN NYC AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO STOP WAR ON IRAN
From the anti-war movement and all movements for social change, to religious and grassroots organizations, unions and schools, let us join forces to demand “No war on Iran, U.S. out of Iraq, Money for human needs not war! ”
http://stopwaroniran.org/aug2.shtml
EX-AGENT SAYS CIA IGNORED IRAN FACTS
A former CIA operative who says he tried to warn the agency about faulty intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs now contends that CIA officials also ignored evidence that Iran had suspended work on a nuclear bomb.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063001940.html
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