Analysis: US ignorant on Iraq oil law

[maddezmom]

Analysis: US ignorant on Iraq oil law
Ben Lando
UPI Energy Correspondent
June 15, 2007


WASHINGTON -- A military leader fresh from Iraq is the latest US government official to push a common but false claim that the controversial draft oil law will lead to a just division of the proceeds from oil sales and pave the way for reconciliation in the war-torn nation.

Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey, former commander of the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq, forwarded claims made by the Bush administration and Congress that if Iraq passes an oil law, the fighting factions there will come together because revenue from oil sales will be distributed to all.

The oil law (also known as the hydrocarbons law), however, does no such thing. A separate revenue-sharing law would decide how the oil revenue is spread around the country. It is currently being negotiated, though far behind the hydrocarbons law in the Iraqi legislative process.

Dempsey, who just returned from his in-Iraq duties, told reporters at a Pentagon briefing Wednesday, "There's an interim step toward reconciliation that might better be described as accommodation," finding "ways to become dependent on each other."

more:http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070615-054942-6713r

[ixion]

1. it's funny... I've never been to Iraq, but I know this is BS, just from what little I know about

Iraq's history and culture and religion, all of which this bozo seems to be ignoring in his 'illuminating' report on the 'oil law'. :eyes:

[Demeter]

2. Not To Mention US history, culture and religion of greed.