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#1 Jul 13 2007 at 6:54 AM Rating: Good
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There are a variety of interesting items on the article, many of which are worth a chuckle as the white house tries to show some kind of improvement to congress.

The one that caught my eye was:
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"In eight other areas, the Iraqis have much more work to do," President Bush said. "For example, they have not done enough to prepare for local elections or pass a law to share oil revenues. And in two remaining areas, progress was too mixed to be characterized one way or the other."

#2 Jul 13 2007 at 7:10 AM Rating: Good
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#3 Jul 13 2007 at 7:16 AM Rating: Decent
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Why highlight the sharing of oil revenues?
#4 Jul 13 2007 at 7:17 AM Rating: Good
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Because we're not there for oil revenues, remember? This is for democracy - it has nothing to do with re-establishing the oil revenuess system that existed in Iran and Iraq for close to a hundred years imposed by the US and Britain.





/chuckle

Edited, Jul 13th 2007 11:18am by scubamage
#5 Jul 13 2007 at 7:20 AM Rating: Decent
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scubamage wrote:
Because we're not there for oil revenues, remember? This is for democracy - it has nothing to do with re-establishing the oil revenuess system that existed in Iran and Iraq for close to a hundred years imposed by the US and Britain.


NephthysWanderer the Charming wrote:
Share with whom?



NPR is on pledge week, I'm paid up and therefore totally annoyed and not using their news service until the pledge drive is over.
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#6 Jul 13 2007 at 7:23 AM Rating: Good
Not that the report isn't funny in and of it self, but you do realize that the "share oil revenues" requirment was to share the revenues with the various internal political power factions in Iraq, not with US based mega corps, right?

Right now the Shiite controlled government has pretty much controls all of the revenues. One of the objective designed to enourage a wider participation in the peace process was to share those revenues between Shiite, Sunni, and Kurdish political powers. Not exactly shockingly, this hasn't gone very far.

As far as the rest of the report, alot of the benchmarks created (both those achieved and those not achieved) are rather vauge and even some of the Iraqi achievements have only been completed with US forces helping.

On the other hand, I would not call this grounds for declaring the surge a failure as of yet. We have just finished getting all of the troops in place, which is nice, but the point of the surge was to actually have them do something. Some units have only begun activities very recently.

Not saying anyone should be holding their breaths but.
#7 Jul 13 2007 at 7:51 AM Rating: Excellent
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scubamage wrote:
Because we're not there for oil revenues, remember?
Not to agree with Losttroll (I kid!) but the sharing of Iraqi oil revenue refers to the distribution of the monies throughout the nation and between the different provinces and ethnic groups (who are mainly geographically separate).
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#8 Jul 13 2007 at 11:50 AM Rating: Decent
scubamage wrote:
Because we're not there for oil revenues, remember? This is for democracy - it has nothing to do with re-establishing the oil revenuess system that existed in Iran and Iraq for close to a hundred years imposed by the US and Britain.


shows what you know. get your head out of your butt, that is talking about putting money back into the country, not into the hands of the US, UK, or any other of the "liberating" nations hands.
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