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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-08-07 01:20 AM
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Poll of Iraqis show they oppose giving away oil as Bush backed hydrocarbon law requires
The last paragraph hits the nail on the head, and the fact that most Democrats refuse to address the oil theft motive directly and in detail shows how little daylight if any is between them and the GOP on foreign policy.

Screwing other people tends to not make friends.




Poll: Iraqis Want National Oil Companies to Develop Iraqi Oil

Robert Naiman
Posted August 7, 2007 | 02:43 PM (EST)

Oil Change International commissioned a poll. More than six-in-ten (63%) of all respondents said they preferred that Iraqi companies rather than foreign firms take the lead in developing Iraq's oil (32% "strongly," 31% "moderately").

The poll also found that three-quarters of Iraqis say their government has provided either "totally inadequate" or "somewhat inadequate" information on the draft oil law, as Ben Lando noted in a UPI analysis.

Reasonable people can disagree in their predictions about what exactly the consequences of the passage of the oil law as currently drafted would be. They can also disagree in their assessment of whether the draft law is in the interest of the majority of Iraqis. But if Iraq is a democracy, the final judgment belongs to the Iraqi people.

U.S. media reporting has misleadingly conflated the question of the proposed reorganization of the industry with the question of how oil revenues are distributed among Iraqis - Counterspin critiques the New York Times coverage here - and there has been little debate. A few Members of Congress -- Reps. Kucinich, Sestak, and Delahunt, for example -- have spoken up.

One suspects that part of the reason is that if supporters of continuing the indefinite U.S. occupation of Iraq were forced to concede that Iraqis don't support what the U.S. is doing -- not to mention that nearly a million Iraqis have died -- the whole argument about "cut and run" would be exposed as a cruel farce. If one is engaged in an immoral enterprise, there's nothing brave about "staying the course."

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