Iraq launches drive to subdue Baghdad

[medicinal]

Executive order number 13303 [signed by George Bush, in May 2003] states â??any attachment, judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or other judicial process is prohibited, and shall be deemed null and voidâ?�, with respect to â??all Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products, and interests therein.â?�
With this, Bush granted Iraqi oil a lifetime exemption provided US companies are involved in the oil's production, transport, or distribution. This order applies to Iraqi oil products that are â??in the United States, hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of United States persons.â?� (Under US law, corporations are â??persons.â?�)

â??In other words, if ExxonMobil or ChevronTexaco touch Iraqi oil, anything they or anyone else does with it is immune from legal proceedings in the US,â?� explained Jim Vallette, an analyst with the Sustainable Energy & Economy Network of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC.
â??Anything that has happened before with oil companies around the world -- 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; or lawsuits by Iraq's current creditors or the next true Iraqi government demanding compensation -- anything at all, is immune from judicial accountability,â?� he says.

â??Effectively Bush has unilaterally declared Iraqi oil to be the unassailable province of US oil corporations,â?� Vallette added.

â?? Pratap Chatterjee and Oula Al Farawati, To the Victors Go the Spoils of War; British Petroleum, Shell and Chevron Win Iraqi Oil Contracts, CorpWatch, August 8, 2003Into June 2004, IPS also also adds that lack of transparency in the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) is leading to unaccountability:

Groups critical of the lack of transparency in the CPA's spending have been particularly angry that the authority is using Iraqi money to pay for questionable contracts -- some awarded without a public tendering process -- with U.S. companies.

Washington has restricted the most lucrative reconstruction contracts in Iraq to gigantic U.S. companies that appear set to rack up profitable contracts, fuelling accusations that the Bush administration is seeking to benefit a select few U.S. companies rather than find the best, and possibly the cheapest, options to help the Iraqi people rebuild.

â?? Emad Mekay, Charity Finds Billions Missing In Iraqi Oil Revenues, Inter Press Service, June 28, 2004
Missing Billions of Iraqi Money that U.S.-led Coalition Cannot Account For
At the end of June 2004, just when the new interim government was to be announced, the British charity and development organization, Christian Aid noted that:

The US-controlled coalition in Baghdad is handing over power to an Iraqi government without having properly accounted for what it has done with some $20 billion of Iraq's own money...

Christian Aid believes this situation is in flagrant breach of the UN Security Council resolution that gave control of Iraq's oil revenues and other Iraqi funds to the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA)....

Resolution 1483 of May 2003 said that Iraq's oil revenues should be paid into the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI), that this money should be spent in the interests of the Iraqi people, and be independently audited. But it took until April 2004 to appoint an auditor - leaving only a matter of weeks to go through the books.

â?? Fuelling suspicion: the coalition and Ira

medicinal Reviewed by medicinal on 01-09-2007. Iraq launches drive to subdue Baghdad BAGHDAD, Iraq - In the opening battle of a major drive to tame the violent capital, the Iraqi army reported it killed 30 militants Saturday in a firefight in a Sunni insurgent stronghold just north of the heavily fortified Green Zone. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, speaking only hours earlier at a ceremony marking the 85th anniversary of the Iraqi army, announced his intention for the open-ended attempt to crush the militant fighters who have left Baghdad in the grip of sectarian violence. Rating: 5

[medicinal]

Executive order number 13303 [signed by George Bush, in May 2003] states â??any attachment, judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or other judicial process is prohibited, and shall be deemed null and voidâ?�, with respect to â??all Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products, and interests therein.â?�
With this, Bush granted Iraqi oil a lifetime exemption provided US companies are involved in the oil's production, transport, or distribution. This order applies to Iraqi oil products that are â??in the United States, hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of United States persons.â?� (Under US law, corporations are â??persons.â?�)

â??In other words, if ExxonMobil or ChevronTexaco touch Iraqi oil, anything they or anyone else does with it is immune from legal proceedings in the US,â?� explained Jim Vallette, an analyst with the Sustainable Energy & Economy Network of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC.
â??Anything that has happened before with oil companies around the world -- 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; or lawsuits by Iraq's current creditors or the next true Iraqi government demanding compensation -- anything at all, is immune from judicial accountability,â?� he says.

â??Effectively Bush has unilaterally declared Iraqi oil to be the unassailable province of US oil corporations,â?� Vallette added.

â?? Pratap Chatterjee and Oula Al Farawati, To the Victors Go the Spoils of War; British Petroleum, Shell and Chevron Win Iraqi Oil Contracts, CorpWatch, August 8, 2003Into June 2004, IPS also also adds that lack of transparency in the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) is leading to unaccountability:

Groups critical of the lack of transparency in the CPA's spending have been particularly angry that the authority is using Iraqi money to pay for questionable contracts -- some awarded without a public tendering process -- with U.S. companies.

Washington has restricted the most lucrative reconstruction contracts in Iraq to gigantic U.S. companies that appear set to rack up profitable contracts, fuelling accusations that the Bush administration is seeking to benefit a select few U.S. companies rather than find the best, and possibly the cheapest, options to help the Iraqi people rebuild.

â?? Emad Mekay, Charity Finds Billions Missing In Iraqi Oil Revenues, Inter Press Service, June 28, 2004
Missing Billions of Iraqi Money that U.S.-led Coalition Cannot Account For
At the end of June 2004, just when the new interim government was to be announced, the British charity and development organization, Christian Aid noted that:
The US-controlled coalition in Baghdad is handing over power to an Iraqi government without having properly accounted for what it has done with some $20 billion of Iraq's own money...Christian Aid believes this situation is in flagrant breach of the UN Security Council resolution that gave control of Iraq's oil revenues and other Iraqi funds to the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA)....

Resolution 1483 of May 2003 said that Iraq's oil revenues should be paid into the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI), that this money should be spent in the interests of the Iraqi people, and be independently audited. But it took until April 2004 to appoint an auditor - leaving only a matter of weeks to go through the books.http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolit...Rebuilding.asp - 6

â?? Fuelling suspicion: the coalition and Ira

[GrowRebel]

Norway:
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security...kurdishoil.htm

Canada & Turkey:
http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/864

Now show me a source about oil exploration rights awarded to U.S. companies.

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

Those links show a legal purchase from Iraqis .... plus it doesn't say anything about getting more oil than the US.

Where does the US get the right to hand out oil contracts from Iraq to US companies?

I gave you my source in my orginal post.

:rastasmoke: :noel:

[Psycho4Bud]

Doesn't cut it..........I agree. I gave you links to actual contracts put into place and you give a link on speculation that hasn't even passed the Iraqi Legistature? Come on now, we can do better than that I hope.

Which oil fields do U.S. oil companys have contracts on? Please provide links.

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

[Psycho4Bud]

medicinal, alot of this was guidelines set up right after the invasion for us to follow. As of now, they don't mean much since the power was transferred to the Iraqi Government from the CPA.

Anything more recent??

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

[daima]

Those links show a legal purchase from Iraqis .... plus it doesn't say anything about getting more oil than the US.

Where does the US get the right to hand out oil contracts from Iraq to US companies?

I gave you my source in my orginal post.

:rastasmoke: :noel:

there is oil to be bought all over the market.
This war isnt, nor was about, access to oil.
This war was about control.
This war also made it so israel has access to Iraqi oil. thats another crime within the crime unleashed by the usa capitalist pigs.

dai*ma:stoned:

[Psycho4Bud]

This war also made it so israel has access to Iraqi oil. thats another crime within the crime unleashed by the usa capitalist pigs.

We've been requesting links as of late........got one?

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

[eg420ne]

Psycho, now we've gone through this b4 but theres been links about this very subject posted here, but am not going to search it out just letting others know this subject and its links been brought up b4 by me & pisshead.so if any1 wants to take p4bs up on this just do a search in politics...i gots your links right here below doh, mmmmm

[daima]

We've been requesting links as of late........got one?

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

Halliburton being one.
They dealt in oil long before dealing in feeding, rebuilding, etc etc.
No bid contracts
If you do your research, and quit asking others to do it for you, you will see that before bush/cheney, halliburton was in trouble with taxes, and was on the brink of collapse after being offshore to avoid taxes for quite some time.
What did cheney have to worry about? worthless stock.
He now gets his 17,000$ per month "retirement" from halliburton and it seems as though because of the no bid contracts handed out by the vp and the "prez, halliburton no longer faces bankrupt, nor any tax evasion charges.
All coincidence? I'll leave that up to those who actually do the reaseach themselves and allow them their own conclusions.
cheney hel secret meeting in his office with the energy companies and the contractors that ended up in Iraq, and they now refuse to allow the public to view those meetings to see what was done. Hopefully we will get access to those records and bushs records, his dads records, clintons records, all which bush put into hiding for life during his first few days in office.
All public record. Go look it up and read some of it, instead of reciting bill oreilly and hannity rhetoric.
Let me know if you find any inaccuracies in my post. I'd be happy to address them with you.

dai*ma:stoned:
go to google and type in any question that asks "what american companies/corporations, are making cash in iraq, and where the oil will finally end up."
I'd suggest a few books, but your willingness to blame a "liberal" author would make it useless.

[Psycho4Bud]

If you do your research, and quit asking others to do it for you,.

Ya know, when I'm asked to supply links for my posts I provide them. Of course, there are some smug people that feel they don't need to provide links.......just bullshit rhetoric.

If you can't supply a link showing what U.S. oil companies have been awarded contracts as of today for exploration and/or drilling just admit it. Why the hell is it always "Prove me wrong."..........San Fran right?

Have a good one!:jointsmile: