Is it a coincidence to see four oil giants return to Iraq: Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP?

Does this give new meaning to the term ';Mission Accomplished';?





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http://www.inteldaily.com/?c=163%26amp;a=7173Is it a coincidence to see four oil giants return to Iraq: Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP?
How could that be a coincidence? American and British companies were shut out of Iraq and its oil under Saddam. Now they're not. Anyone with any sense realized the true purpose of the Iraq War. Is it a coincidence to see four oil giants return to Iraq: Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP?
Yes Sir, it's all coincidence. The Iraq war was all about fighting the evildoers. Denial makes me and my Republican friends sleep at night.





';Four major US, British and French oil companies are getting their hands on the petroleum reserves of Iraq for the first time in 36 years, based on no-bid contracts, the New York Times reported.


These deals reached with the US-backed regime in Baghdad have placed the five-year-old US war of aggression in the clearest possible perspective.


For the thousands of American families who have seen their sons and daughters killed in the Iraq war or return maimed or psychologically damaged, the knowledge that their sacrifices have opened up potentially huge new profit streams for Exxon-Mobil, Shell, British Petroleum and Total will provide cold comfort.


For the over one million Iraqis killed and the millions more turned into refugees or made homeless in their own land, an overriding justification for their suffering has now been laid bare. It was to further enrich the already obscenely wealthy corporate executives and major shareholders of Big Oil.


The deals, expected to be announced on June 30, will lay the foundation for the first commercial work for the major companies in Iraq since the American invasion, and open a new and potentially lucrative country for their operations.


The no-bid contracts are unusual for the industry, and the offers prevailed over others by more than 40 companies, including companies in Russia, China and India.”


No-bid deals in the oil sector are not only “unusual,” under conditions in which oil demand is at an all-time high crude is selling for nearly $140 a barrel and energy-producing countries around the world—Russia, Kazakhstan, Venezuela, Bolivia and others—are exerting a tighter national grip over their reserves. Such contracts cannot be explained outside of their being negotiated at the point of a gun.


http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jun200…


The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq's oil before the 9/11 attacks, sparking a policy battle between neo-cons and Big Oil, BBC's Newsnight has revealed.


Two years ago today (2005 article) - when President George Bush announced US, British and Allied forces would begin to bomb Baghdad - protesters claimed the US had a secret plan for Iraq's oil once Saddam had been conquered.


In fact there were two conflicting plans, setting off a hidden policy war between neo-conservatives at the Pentagon, on one side, versus a combination of ';Big Oil'; executives and US State Department ';pragmatists';.


';Big Oil'; appears to have won. The latest plan, obtained by Newsnight from the US State Department was, we learned, drafted with the help of American oil industry consultants


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/ne…


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/…


';I'm saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: The Iraq war is largely about oil.'; – Alan Greenspan












Just like vultures, CFR members (oil executives) are going to Iraq to steal Iraq's oil. This is one of the benefits of CFR membership. The Council propagandizes the American people, makes the laws, enforces the laws, and steals whatever is not nailed down.
No coincidence at all. Exxon, Mobile, Shell, Total, and others ordered/asked criminal Bush to invade Iraq. Why so many American people are so naive as little children which still believe in red, white and blue.. Just unbelievable.
No. That is what the war is all about. You don't expect to see Russian or Red Chineese oil companies in there, do you. Actually, I don't like seeing BP in there. The British didn't do enough. And Shell (Royal Dutch) Did they have any troops in the coallition?
No coincidence as that was the purpose of the war.
They are in the oil business. Iraq needs them and they need Iraq. It is a symbiosis.
Whats wrong with bringing some money to the Iraqis?


It's no coincidence that their is commerce in Iraq. It's a sign of progress.