86 - Iraq's New Oil Law: Proof That Bush's War IS Blood For Oil

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🗓️ 22 March 2007

⏱️ 36 minutes

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U.S. government pre-war planning documents stated that the new Iraqi government would have to privatize its oil industry. The Iraq Study Group said the same thing after the war.The new Iraqi oil law just unveiled would do just that:A new oil law set to go before the Iraqi Parliament this month would, if passed...transform Iraq’s oil industry from a nationalized model closed to American oil

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0:00.0	Music
0:19.4	Greetings!
0:20.4	This is Podcast number 86 of Blast the Right.
0:23.9	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com
0:26.9	Today we're going to discuss the proposed new Iraqi oil law which gives a big boost to
0:36.5	the point of view that we invaded Iraq to control its oil.
0:41.1	Also, stick around for the closing comments where I'll tell you about a Blast the Right
0:46.4	live calling show this Monday, March 26th.
0:50.4	Let's get right into it.
0:52.6	My sources are msnbc.com, op-ed pieces in the New York Times and the LA Times, wikipedia.com,
1:01.0	the British newspaper, the independent, a column in the New York Daily News, common dreams.org,
1:07.4	and the Interpress Service.
1:10.1	Here are the delightful opening paragraphs of a column last month in the New York Daily
1:14.9	News.
1:15.9	Quote, throughout nearly four years of the Daily Mayhem and Carnage in Iraq, President
1:21.4	Bush and his Aids in the White House have scoffed at even the slightest suggestion that
1:26.0	the US military occupation has anything to do with oil.
1:30.4	The President, presumably, would have us all believe that if Iraq had the world's second
1:35.2	largest supply of bananas instead of petroleum, American troops would still be there.
1:41.8	Now comes new evidence of the big prize in Iraq that rarely gets mentioned at White House
1:47.6	briefings, close quote.
1:50.8	Before we get into that, new evidence, which is the proposed Iraqi oil law, some background.
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