If Dems won't end the Iraq War, tell them to investigate the OIL MOTIVE and privatization

[yurbud]

Henry Waxman has been going to town with the investigations, and a couple of years ago, he even went after the Cheney Energy Task Force where they were spooging over maps of oil fields in Iraq. He was stymied because he didn't have subpoena power.

Now he does.

He should reopen that investigation, and look at the privatization plan that Gen. Garner was reluctant to enforce, and the current hydrocarbon law Bush is forcing on the Iraqis that will strip them of up to 80% of their oil income.

This is not just of historical interest because the Hydrocarbon Law benchmark says it must have “broad support” among Iraqis.

Since Iraqi oil workers, scholars, Saddam era oil bureaucrats, and now Iraq’s vice president oppose the Hydrocarbon Law with PSA’s in it, and the Iraqi parliament decided to go on vacation rather than pass it, the case can be made that it’s support is about as wide as the leash Bush has on Maliki. If it was a law in the interest of Iraqis, Bush wouldn’t have had to threaten to fire Maliki if it didn’t pass.

Iraqi opposition to Hydrocarbon Law
http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2007/03/iraqi-scholars-pols-say-reject.html

Bush threat to Maliki
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/13/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Oil.php


Fax, call, & email Henry Waxman, chair of the oversight committee and other members here:
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newcommittee.cgi?commcode=hcommerce_oni&site=ctc&lang=&&address=&city=&state=&zipcode=&plusfour=

[depakid]

1. They sold us out on that issue, too.

See:

House Democrats Buckle Under Pressure from Big Oil, Strip Down Price Gouging Bill

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/24/1417/

[yurbud]

3. different issue, same pit bull. It would be harder to kill an investigation

than legislation.

[depakid]

5. What would an uinvestigation accomplish?

The same thing as past investigations accomplished.

VIRTUALLY NOTHING.

Basically, they've ended up do & pony shows, with the occasional fine that doesn't come close to balancing out the ill gotten gains.

see, e.g.: http://wyden.senate.gov/media/2002/04292002_gasprices.html

[Raven]

2. I think the privatization of oil is the reason some Dem candidates

want to keep a troop presence over there...to protect the private US oil companies. Please tell me I'm wrong.

[yurbud]

4. we can still make them do it. and Waxman isn't that type.