Iraqi Unions Fight the New Oil Law

Just one more sign, as if it were needed, that big oil dominates this administration. Who would have thought that two guys from the oil patch would have pandered so shamelessly to Exxon Mobil? Just those folks who had a brain and knew how to think.
Remember when Shrub told us that revenues from the Iraqi oil fields would pay for this ego war? Guess that explains why the US is still borrowing money to pay for the ego war.
But Shrub still grins and sleeps soundly every night. And to do that with the Shootist creating his own little world, shows how clueless Duhbya really is.

Posted by farmer on Jul 10, 2007 at 6:49 AM

One word - photovoltaics.

Let’s end our reliance and exploitation of the crazies in the middle east. Let them live in the middle ages if they want, we need to extricate ourselves from them.

It does not help that our “friends’ (Saudi’s) are among the worst of the bunch (it must really suck to be born female in that sad part of the world!).

Posted by wolf on Jul 10, 2007 at 11:28 AM

Nouri al-Maliki used Iraqi troops to break the strike in June and arrest the leaders. This shows that he is a US puppet. This issue means more to Iraqi oil workers than wages and conditions of work. This is most probably because the Oil Industry is Iraq’s chief foreign exchange earner and main export and determines the perameters of economic development for the country.

The effort to sell off the oil industry also is an effort to split up the country and deprive the Sunni Triangle of development revenue. The twin goals of profit taking and controlling the course of Iraqi development has been opposed by the oil workers. This is understandable. The cause of controlling Iraqi oil is the core of the US cause for the invasion of Iraq in the first place.

Posted by cabdriverinchicago on Jul 20, 2007 at 12:07 AM