The New Iraq Deal

[GrobbeeTrull2.0]

Ok, here it is, all laid out for you to examine... your thoughts? (Source)

Dick Cheney wants the Iraqi government installed by the U.S. occupation to sign a “security pact” with Washington by the end of July. (The pact, including a status-of-forces agreement, would be signed by the U.S. president but not constitute a treaty requiring Congressional approval.) U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker has been feverishly struggling to meet the deadline and to commit the next administration to the agreement’s terms. But that may be a tall order. Prime Minister Nour al-Maliki says negotiations are only in a beginning stage; public opinion is opposed to the pact based on leaked information about its content; and a majority of members of the Iraqi parliament have endorsed a letter to the U.S. government demanding U.S. withdrawal as the condition for “any commercial, agricultural, investment or political agreement with the United States.”

Few Americans are familiar with the proposed treaty. If they were, they might be shocked at its provisions:

• grants the U.S. long-term rights to maintain over 50 military bases in their California-sized country
  
• allows the U.S. to strike any other country from within Iraqi territory without the permission of the Iraqi government
  
• allows the U.S. to conduct military activities in Iraq without consulting with the local government
  
• allows U.S. forces to arrest any Iraqi without consulting with Iraqi authorities
  
• extends to U.S. troops and contracters immunity from Iraqi law
  
• gives U.S. forces control of Iraqi airspace below 29,000ft.
  
• places the Iraqi Defense, Interior and National Security ministries, under American supervision for ten years
  
• gives the U.S. responsibility for Iraqi armament contracts for ten years

Meanwhile, there’s this other Iraqi item on Cheney’s urgent to-do list: the passage of the Iraq Hydrocarbon Law by the Iraqi Parliament. This was drafted by BearingPoint (a McLean, Virginia-based management consulting provider listed by the Center for Corporate Policy as the number 2 top war profiteer of 2004) in February 2006 and then presented to the newly-appointed Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein Al-Shahristani. Shahristani then met in Washington DC with representatives of Shell, BP, ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco and ConocoPhillips to get their comments on the draft. He promised the International Monetary Fund that the Iraqi parliament would pass the law by the end of 2006, but its members hadn’t even seen the 33-page draft law yet. Months earlier an Oil Ministry official had said that Iraqi civil society and the general public would not be consulted at all on this matter.

A secret appendix to the draft law, according to London-based Iraqi political analyst Munir Chalabi, “will decide which oil fields will be allocated to the Iraqi National Oil Company (INOC) and which of the existing fields will be allocated to the IOCs [international oil companies]. The appendices will determine if 10% or possibly up to 80% of these major oil fields will be given to the IOCs.” This, in other words, is another national humiliation in the offing. As six women Nobel Peace Prize recipients wrote in September 2007, it “would transform Iraq’s oil industry from a nationalized model to a commercial model that is much more open to U.S. corporate control. Its provisions allow much (if not most) of Iraq’s oil revenues to flow out of Iraq and into the pockets of international oil companies.”

How do they propose to get Iraqi's to accept such a bad deal? Well, they'll blackmail them, of course.

Still think we went there with honorable intentions?

[dak]

I wanna approve of this post so bad but the source is credible as 3am 4chan /b/

[GrobbeeTrull2.0]

Why? Here are some more.

Iraqi PM: US-Iraq security pact will not harm Iran - Yahoo! News
Opposition to U.S.-Iraq security deal - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
Shiites Across Iraq Protest U.S. Presence - washingtonpost.com
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 05/30/2008 | Iraqi officials worry about security deal with U.S.
The Associated Press: Iran: US-Iraq security deal aims to enslave Iraqis

[dak]

Much better.

[Gigfc]

GG, Dick.

[voodoo13]

Fuck, why do we let our government be so corrupt?

[Arbitrary]

Fuck man, if I was running for President I'd want a man like Dick Cheney as my VP. He's a bag man. Everyone needs a bag man.

[Soriak]

Corruption related to Iraq? Say it ain't so...

[Lejina Bloodbath]

I too am deeply shocked and surprised.

[slitz]

Ah so this is the freedom Iraq was promised?

[Lejina Bloodbath]

Well, they are free to say yes or no.

[slitz]

Originally Posted by Lejina Bloodbath

Well, they are free to say yes or no.

You read the whole post? 8)

[Grumath]

How many people here are lurking around this thread waiting for Khorum's wall of text/Link Bomb? I know I am!

[Lejina Bloodbath]

Originally Posted by slitz

You read the whole post? 8)

Yup.

[Sinter1]

Originally Posted by Grumath

How many people here are lurking around this thread waiting for Khorum's wall of text/Link Bomb? I know I am!

Awaiting his post and the republican fox news spin

Anyone expecting less from the Neocon imperialists? History repeating itself.