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Voor wie nog overtuigd was van de nobele intenties van Bush cs.
Future of Iraq: The spoils of war How the West will make a killing on Iraqi oil riches By Danny Fortson, Andrew Murray-Watson and Tim Webb Published: 07 January 2007 Iraq's massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be thrown open for large-scale exploitation by Western oil companies under a controversial law which is expected to come before the Iraqi parliament within days. The US government has been involved in drawing up the law, a draft of which has been seen by The Independent on Sunday. It would give big oil companies such as BP, Shell and Exxon 30-year contracts to extract Iraqi crude and allow the first large-scale operation of foreign oil interests in the country since the industry was nationalised in 1972. The huge potential prizes for Western firms will give ammunition to critics who say the Iraq war was fought for oil. They point to statements such as one from Vice-President Dick Cheney, who said in 1999, while he was still chief executive of the oil services company Halliburton, that the world would need an additional 50 million barrels of oil a day by 2010. "So where is the oil going to come from?... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies," he said. Oil industry executives and analysts say the law, which would permit Western companies to pocket up to three-quarters of profits in the early years, is the only way to get Iraq's oil industry back on its feet after years of sanctions, war and loss of expertise. But it will operate through "production-sharing agreements" (or PSAs) which are highly unusual in the Middle East, where the oil industry in Saudi Arabia and Iran, the world's two largest producers, is state controlled. Opponents say Iraq, where oil accounts for 95 per cent of the economy, is being forced to surrender an unacceptable degree of sovereignty. Proposing the parliamentary motion for war in 2003, Tony Blair denied the "false claim" that "we want to seize" Iraq's oil revenues. He said the money should be put into a trust fund, run by the UN, for the Iraqis, but the idea came to nothing. The same year Colin Powell, then Secretary of State, said: "It cost a great deal of money to prosecute this war. But the oil of the Iraqi people belongs to the Iraqi people; it is their wealth, it will be used for their benefit. So we did not do it for oil." Supporters say the provision allowing oil companies to take up to 75 per cent of the profits will last until they have recouped initial drilling costs. After that, they would collect about 20 per cent of all profits, according to industry sources in Iraq. But that is twice the industry average for such deals. Greg Muttitt, a researcher for Platform, a human rights and environmental group which monitors the oil industry, said Iraq was being asked to pay an enormous price over the next 30 years for its present instability. "They would lose out massively," he said, "because they don't have the capacity at the moment to strike a good deal." Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister, Barham Salih, who chairs the country's oil committee, is expected to unveil the legislation as early as today. "It is a redrawing of the whole Iraqi oil industry [to] a modern standard," said Khaled Salih, spokesman for the Kurdish Regional Government, a party to the negotiations. The Iraqi government hopes to have the law on the books by March. Several major oil companies are said to have sent teams into the country in recent months to lobby for deals ahead of the law, though the big names are considered unlikely to invest until the violence in Iraq abates. James Paul, executive director at the Global Policy Forum, the international government watchdog, said: "It is not an exaggeration to say that the overwhelming majority of the population would be opposed to this. To do it anyway, with minimal discussion within the [Iraqi] parliament is really just pouring more oil on the fire." Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman and a former chief economist at Shell, said it was crucial that any deal would guarantee funds for rebuilding Iraq. "It is absolutely vital that the revenue from the oil industry goes into Iraqi development and is seen to do so," he said. "Although it does make sense to collaborate with foreign investors, it is very important the terms are seen to be fair." http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...cle2132569.ece |
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Het probleem is, dat veel Amerikanen gewoon slecht geïnformeerd zijn. Het nieuws uit dit topic, bijvoorbeeld, is in de VS niet in de mainstream media verschenen. 60% van de Amerikanen, zo las ik laatst, haalt zijn informatie uit Fox News, dat beheerd wordt door de neo-conservatieven die ook Bush steunen. Op YouTube zijn veel voorbeelden te vinden van de verschrikkelijke manier waarop zij het nieuws verdraaien. Maar ook de meeste andere grote nieuwskanalen, zoals CNN, doen eraan mee, in de strijd om de kijkcijfers. Je kunt niet verwachten dat de kiezers dan een weloverwogen beslissing nemen. |
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Wat ik zei geld vooral voor de republikeinen. |
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Wat we echter wel kunnen stellen is dat het gedachtengoed van conservatief Amerika achterlijk is. ![]()
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edit: ik zie het al. ![]() Laatst gewijzigd op 10-01-2007 om 23:02. |
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Leuk dat je mensen verwijt waar je zelf het meest schuldig aan bent, potten, zwart en ketels. Citaat:
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en verder was het natuurlijk niet 100% serieus een grapje tegen mark ![]() |
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The US government has been involved in drawing up the law, a draft of which has been seen by The Independent on Sunday. Tevens wordt Exxon genoemd, een Amerikaans bedrijf. Citaat:
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Bovendien spreken de feiten de beste man tegen, op meerdere fronten. Zo had hij moeten weten dat Bush op het moment dat hij claims maakte over banden tussen Irak en Al Qu'aida, verrijkt uranium uit Niger en aluminimum buizen al door de CIA op de hoogte was gebracht dat die claims niet klopten. Als Groenhuijsen dan zegt dat Bush alleen maar 'foute informatie' had, heeft hij de feiten niet op een rijtje. Daar doet jarenlange ervaring niets aan. Heck, ik kan ook wel jarenlang correspondent worden voor het NOS in Israël, maar als ik daarna ga uitkramen dat de premier willens en wetens het vredesoverleg heeft gesaboteerd, terwijl dat feitelijk niet zo is (ik noem maar wat), dan kan ik daar ook op afgerekend worden, ondanks mijn 'ervaring'. Citaat:
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bush bepaalt niet in zijn eentje dat het land die oorlog gaat voeren natuurlijk en niet iedereen inde regering heeft olie connecties er is ook publiek debat over geweest en hij kreeg redelijk wat steun die mensen hebben ook niet allemaal olie connecties ![]() ![]() |
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