Re: Cheney's Halliburton to Control Iraqi Oil?

"Timothy R. Butler" <[email protected]>
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Organization Universal Networks
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> >   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.
>
> If the country really is a democracy then keeping it nationalized
> accomplishes that.

  No, not really. My described method would allow the citizens to sell their 
share(s) if they so wished.

> Well you need to consider the ulterior motives of the pundits.  Are these
> Empire people, like CFR or one of their many think tanks, such as Heritage
> Foundation, National Review, etc.?  The purpose of these people is to
> deceive and confuse, and it is best to take what they say for what it is: 
> propaganda to manipulate people to accept a pre-determined outcome.

  Can't remember where I got it from just now, but it was a liberal Canadian 
magazine, I think... anti-war, etc., etc. It was arguing that democracy 
wouldn't work in countries where the government can buy everyone off with oil 
wealth. Nationalized oil helps in this persuit.

> More generally, how can you believe such total pundit crap ;-) ?

  Hehehe.


  -Tim

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