Operation Oily Immunity

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(while we focus on the more stupid topics of the day,
Bush Inc. does these kinds of things...)

Operation Oily Immunity: Bush Quietly Moves to Protect U.S. Oil Interests in Iraq
Monday, August 4th, 2003

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/151238

The Institute for Policy Studies and Government Accountability Project are calling on Congress to investigate and repeal an executive order signed by President George W. Bush that they say gives sweeping powers to U.S. oil companies operating in Iraq.

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On May 22 Bush signed Executive Order 13303 that, the group say, could place U.S. oil and gas corporations above the law for any activities “related to” Iraqi oil.
“In other words, if ExxonMobil or ChevronTexaco touch Iraqi oil, it will be immune from legal proceedings in the US. Anything that could go, and elsewhere has gone, awry with U.S. corporate oil operations will be immune to judgment: a massive tanker accident; an explosion at an oil refinery; the employment of slave labor to build a pipeline; murder of locals by corporate security; the release of billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The President, with a stroke of the pen, signed away the rights of Saddam's victims, creditors and of the next true Iraqi government to be compensated through legal action. Bush's order unilaterally declares Iraqi oil to be the unassailable province of U.S. corporations,” write IPS researchers Steve Kretzmann and Jim Vallette in their recent article “Operation Oily Immunity.”


Jim Vallette, director of research at Sustainable Energy & Economy Network or SEEN which is part of the Institute for Policy Studies. His most recent article "Operation Oily Immunity" appeared on the website commondreams.org

[realFedUp]

1. no opinion on this?

This is one of the more blatant reasons men and women
are dying in Iraq and billions are being spent.