Iraqi Oil Belongs
To The Iraqi People
by Nancy Wohlforth
and Fred Mason
commondreams.org
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have already cost the American people more than $500 billion, the deaths of 3200 U.S. troops, 25,000 others wounded, and countless Iraqi lives. The total price tag is projected to top $1.2 trillion.With the fourth anniversary of the […]

Asia Times Online
THE ROVING EYE
US stays the course
for Big Oil in Iraq
By Pepe Escobar
http://tinyurl.com/yd4j3s
Washington at large and President George W Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in particular may apply every contortionist trick in the geopolitical book to save their skins in Iraq - and the reasons are not entirely political.
In addition to the recently […]

The Baker Agenda:
Troops out,
Oil Companies in?
By Tom Hayden
CommonDreams.org
December 8, 2006
Recommendations 62 and 63 in the Iraq Study Group Report confirm that control of Iraqi oil is a fundamental premise of Administration policy.
This was denied in the first years of the war, but this week the President confirmed his belief that Islamic extremists will “gain access […]

‘No Blood for Oil!’
Energy and the
Roots of War
By Carl Bloice
‘Left Margin’ Column
in The Black Commentator
http://tinyurl.com/yg8q4y
November 30, 2006
There’s one important thing the new Congress could do that would be really worthwhile, and that would be to revisit the question of the mysterious energy task force, or National Energy Policy Development Group, assembled by Vice-President Dick Cheney […]