29 April 2007

Now we see it ...

I'm surprised it has taken so long. Perhaps they wanted to make sure that this news only ended up on the less-read business pages rather than becoming a big political issue. But I think that this was the real point of the Iraq conflict.
Baghdad is under pressure from Britain and the US to pass an oil law which would hand long-term control of Iraq's energy assets to foreign multinationals, according to campaigners.

Iraq poised to hand control of oil fields to foreign firms | Business | The Observer

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