"The Iraq war was about oil. Recently declassified US government documents confirm this,
however much US president George W Bush, vice-president Dick Cheney,
defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld and their ally, the British prime
minister Tony Blair, denied it at the time ... The neocon ideologues, still on the scene, had bizarre ideas: they
wanted to build a pipeline to transport Iraq’s crude oil to Israel,
dismantle OPEC and
even use “liberated” Iraq as a guinea pig for a new oil business model
to be applied to all of the Middle East ... The occupiers regarded the oil under the ground as Iraq’s one real asset ... The usual practice is for foreign companies that provide financial
backing to get a share of the oil produced, which can be very
significant in the first few years. This was the formula US politicians
and oil companies wanted to impose. They were unable to do so.
Iraq’s parliament, so often criticised in other matters, opposed this system ... Iraq’s oil deposits were known and mapped out. There was therefore
little risk to foreign companies: there would be no prospecting costs
and exploitation costs would be among the lowest in the world. From 2008
onwards, Baghdad started offering major oil companies far less
attractive contracts — $2/barrel for the bigger oilfields, and no rights
to the deposits.
ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, Total, and Russian, Chinese, Angolan, Pakistani
and Turkish oil companies nevertheless rushed to accept, hoping that
things would turn to their advantage ... ExxonMobil and Total disregarded the federal government edict that
threatened to strip rights from oil companies that signed
production-sharing agreements relating to oilfields in Kurdistan ... Meanwhile, Turkey has done nothing to improve its relations with Iraq by
offering to build a direct pipeline from Kurdistan to the
Mediterranean. Without the war, would the oil companies have been able
to make the Iraqis and Kurds compete?"
Zum Artikel von Jean-Pierre Séréni, erschienen im Monde Diplomatique (6. März 2013) »
Anmerkung: Es sei an dieser Stelle im Rahmen der aktuellen, terroristischen und vom sogenannten "Westen" unterstützten Destabilisierungsversuche Syriens auf die geplante Pipelinetrasse vom Irak und insbesondere der Autonomen Region Kurdistan zum Mittelmeer bzw. Israel hingewiesen.
Zum Artikel von Jean-Pierre Séréni, erschienen im Monde Diplomatique (6. März 2013) »
Anmerkung: Es sei an dieser Stelle im Rahmen der aktuellen, terroristischen und vom sogenannten "Westen" unterstützten Destabilisierungsversuche Syriens auf die geplante Pipelinetrasse vom Irak und insbesondere der Autonomen Region Kurdistan zum Mittelmeer bzw. Israel hingewiesen.
