Kurdish and Sunni Arab officials expressed deep reservations on Wednesday about the draft version of a national oil law and related legislation, misgivings that could derail one of the benchmark measures of progress in Iraq laid down by President Bush. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
This article had been heavily edited. It doesn't even provide a link to the proposed oil bill which states that US petroleum companies will have first crack in developing "alternative production sites" aside from the 27 oil wells currently on line. If this law is passed, Bush will no doubt approve a cosmetic withdrawal and concentrate US forces around these "new" oil sites. Note that what is being distributed to the Iraqis are "revenues" not control of their patrimony.
