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Posted By tehranchik 3 months ago in News"There was suspicion among many in the Arab world and among parts of the American public that the United States had gone to war in Iraq precisely to secure the oil wealth these contracts seek to extract," Andrew E. Kramer wrote in The New York Times.
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Well, I'm from and live in the Pacific Northwest. I did live in the middle east during the late 70's and early 80 ...
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hyperbola3 months ago
The Bush Administration Strikes Oil in Iraq
Politics รข;; The Bush administration has been facilitating ties between the Iraqi government and foreign oil companies for years. The same companies now likely to nab a no-bid toehold in Iraq's oilfields are intimately tied to the Pentagon for billions of dollars annually. Most of these firms have also been closely connected to Vice President Cheney.
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