From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

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"John Beamish"  wrote:
>Serious answer:  rather than dictating the laws that the Iraqi parliament
>will be passing, I think the US should stand back and let the Iraqis
>determine that ... what's the rush to bring it in now?
>
>I fully understand your position but there are international petroleum
>companies that aren't BP, Shell or Exxon.  I rather expect that the
>Chinese would be quite willing to develop the oil reserves for Iraq.

The concessions should go to the highest bidder - whoever is going to pay
the most to Iraq for them. since it's thier property, the Iraqi people
should decide. What's about to go down is a ripoff of the most massive
kind.

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