Reply #9: Make Sure The Big Oil Fields Are In The Kurd Hands

[KharmaTrain]

I remember reading in the run-up to the Iraq war that a key strategy (and a reason booosh so desperately wanted to invade from Turkey) was to make sure the Kurds ended up with control of Kirkuk and the large oil deposits in that area. It was reported at the time that the CIA was even funding Zarquawi...whose camp was inside the Kurish territory...and creating more problems for Saddam than he was for the Kurds...and that if there was an invasion it was to ensure the Kurds got a lion's share of the oil fields where existing ties with large oil corporates had existed for years.

Instability is what is keeping oil prices high and dividing the country guarantees that the strife will continue and the oil in the Shiite sections will say in the ground and the big oil companies will be happy with their control of the oil fields of the north.