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How to Denationalize Iraq's Oil Wealth Email Print

Antonia Juhasz, an analyst working with the watchdog group Change International, has written a revealing book called" The Bush Agenda:  Invading the World, One Economy at a Time."

She wrote the most succinct paragraphs I have ever read regarding the real reasons why we are in Iraq in the New York Times editorial page on March 13.  A chief executive of Chevron, speaking to a San Francisco audience, observed, "Iraq possesses huge reserves of oil and gas - reserves I'd love Chevron to have access to."

Antonia Juhasz vividly explained:

"A new oil law set to go before the Iraq Parliament this month if passed, goes a long way toward helping oil companies achieve their goal.  The Iraq hydrocarbon law would take the majority of Iraq's oil out of the exclusive hands of the Iraqi government and open it to international oil companies for a generation or more."

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