NO OIL FOR BLOOD

Abu Afak, Mittwoch, 23. April 2003, 04:13 (vor 7884 Tagen)

NO OIL FOR BLOOD


April 22, 2003 -- WHY do you think France, Russia
and China sided with Saddam Hussein in the United
Nations Security Council against the invasion of
Iraq? Because their support was bought and paid
for by the Iraqi dictator. Now, in the ruins of
his empire, the question is whether the world will
honor his promised bribes.

In 1997, Saddam hit on a bright idea for
obstructing U.S. efforts to interrupt his grand
design for regional domination. To get United
Nations approval to lift sanctions and allow
unrestricted oil sales, he passed out oil bribes
to France, Russia and China so that they would
vote his way in the Security Council.

The bribes came in the form of a contingent right
to develop Iraq´s major oil fields. Sitting atop
the world´s second-largest reservoir of oil
reserves (after Saudi Arabia), Saddam gave
companies from the three nations contracts letting
them develop the fields once the sanctions were
lifted.

Now the main beneficiaries of this dictatorial
largesse are demanding that the new management in
Baghdad honor these contracts made with the
corrupt dictator for an evil purpose....

........Marching in lockstep is Lukoil, the
Russian oil company that secured contracts to
develop some of Iraq´s biggest petroleum fields.
Leonid Fedun, the company´s vice chairman was
quoted in The Financial Times as saying, "From a
legal point of view, those are our reserves.

His reserves?......""

The rest at: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/ope
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