Re: Cheney's Halliburton to Control Iraqi Oil?
"Timothy R. Butler" <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > What Iraqi company is rich enough to afford a fair price for the oil > fields? I guess the "ideal" solution would be to give each tax payer in Iraq after reorgnizing the government so many shares of the Iraqi Oil Company. That would be tough. > Beyond that the oil belongs to the Iraqi people, any privatization will be > a criminal theft (while perhaps theoretically you could come up with a fair > privatization plan, even though that would be nearly impossible, in > practice for damn sure there won't be one). I'm not sure what the idea solution is. Having it remain nationalized sure isn't ideal, some political pundits have suggested nationalized oil makes democracy near impossible. Perhaps for now the best system would be to have the Iraqi government auction off a ten year lease on the oil fields. (The profits to be used for Iraqi rebuilding, etc.). -Tim - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks www.uninet.info ==================== <[email protected]> ==================== | Christian Portal: | Have you not learned great lessons | | www.faithtree.com | from those who braced themselves | | GNU/Linux News: | against you and disputed the | | www.ofb.biz | passage with you? --Walt Whitman | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+vY9jK37Cns9gJ0gRAuw6AJ9yl7TPMOmHanct3xg5nENMKt75pgCaA9am cfuxK7js5TMy8f4dzu+lzW0= =X1mx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent OfB.biz: Open for Business, KDE or the author's employer.