While Everyone Was Watching Anna Nicole Smith Rot

Allies pressure Iraq to hand over oil
New Zealand Herald
Feb 25, 2007

LONDON - Baghdad is under pressure from Britain and the United States to pass an oil law which would hand long-term control of Iraq's energy assets to foreign multinationals, according to campaigners.

Iraqi trades unions have called for the country's oil reserves - the second-largest in the world - to be kept in public hands. But a leaked draft of the oil law shows that the Government would sign away the right to exploit its untapped fields in so-called exploration contracts, which could be extended for more than 30 years.

More on O(peration) I(raqi) L(iberation) here ...

In the meantime ...

Record Profit For Exxon And Shell
New York Times - Feb 2, 2007

DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - Oil prices have fallen, but Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell left their smaller competitors in the dust and reported record annual profits Thursday. By making $180 million a day between them, the two largest publicly traded oil companies displayed their ability to ramp up production worldwide over the ...

Its the New York Times so you have to subscribe to get the rest ...

And you thought the war was because Saddam had weapons of mass distruction? NO?

OK ... so you thought the war was because Saddam had ties to al Qaeda?

hummmm ... ok .. so you didn't buy into that either.

You thought we were going to bring the Iraqi people democracy, right?

We switch you now to our man on the street interview:

Reporter: Mr Hasan Jumah Awwad al-Asadi, you're the leader of the country's oil workers' union. What to you think about foreign oil companies and their legalistic slight of hand that lets them say the oil belongs to Iraq but while they claim ownership of the "extraction rights" in a kind of international oil business equivalent of "droit de seigneur"?

Mr. al-Asadi: History will not forgive those who F%&# with the wealth and destiny of a people."

Reporter: Uh ... no ... I don't imagine it will ...

There you have it, folks. Operation Iraqi Liberation is in full swing. One might even say, "Mission Accomplished"!

Honestly, I sincerely believe that anyone who gets their news from television or any of the rest of the Main Stream Media hasn't got a clue whats going on.