http://washingtonindependent.com/26028/i-cant-link-those-two-events National News in Context Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:40:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://washingtonindependent.com/26028/i-cant-link-those-two-events/comment-page-1#comment-34952 tim Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:30:26 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=26028#comment-34952 Oil facilities "had" to be secured first, even if it cost the Iraqis (and the world) the heritage of civilizations rise in the National Museum.<br>Kind of sad that the Iraqi oil fields are still sub-producing, and the amount that is being illegally siphoned off is enough to fill an oil tanker or two every day.<br>Odd how the people of Iraq - a very educated populace - has been deemed to "backward" to run their own oil fields and the exact same corporations that lost their contracts to Saddam Hussein have been given production rights under the Iraq Petroleum Laws. (BP, Shell, Aramco). Oil facilities “had” to be secured first, even if it cost the Iraqis (and the world) the heritage of civilizations rise in the National Museum.
Kind of sad that the Iraqi oil fields are still sub-producing, and the amount that is being illegally siphoned off is enough to fill an oil tanker or two every day.
Odd how the people of Iraq – a very educated populace – has been deemed to “backward” to run their own oil fields and the exact same corporations that lost their contracts to Saddam Hussein have been given production rights under the Iraq Petroleum Laws. (BP, Shell, Aramco).

]]> http://washingtonindependent.com/26028/i-cant-link-those-two-events/comment-page-1#comment-17524 tim Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:30:26 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=26028#comment-17524 Oil facilities "had" to be secured first, even if it cost the Iraqis (and the world) the heritage of civilizations rise in the National Museum.<br>Kind of sad that the Iraqi oil fields are still sub-producing, and the amount that is being illegally siphoned off is enough to fill an oil tanker or two every day.<br>Odd how the people of Iraq - a very educated populace - has been deemed to "backward" to run their own oil fields and the exact same corporations that lost their contracts to Saddam Hussein have been given production rights under the Iraq Petroleum Laws. (BP, Shell, Aramco). Oil facilities “had” to be secured first, even if it cost the Iraqis (and the world) the heritage of civilizations rise in the National Museum.
Kind of sad that the Iraqi oil fields are still sub-producing, and the amount that is being illegally siphoned off is enough to fill an oil tanker or two every day.
Odd how the people of Iraq – a very educated populace – has been deemed to “backward” to run their own oil fields and the exact same corporations that lost their contracts to Saddam Hussein have been given production rights under the Iraq Petroleum Laws. (BP, Shell, Aramco).

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