Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Gimmie an 'O' ...

Or, how the Chimp measures 'victory' in Eye Rack:

Iraq's massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be thrown open for large-scale exploitation by Western oil companies under a controversial law which is expected to come before the Iraqi parliament within days.

The US government has been involved in drawing up the law, a draft of which has been seen by The Independent on Sunday. It would give big oil companies such as BP, Shell and Exxon 30-year contracts to extract Iraqi crude and allow the first large-scale operation of foreign oil interests in the country since the industry was nationalised in 1972. [my ems]

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Mission Accomplished.

Thanks to the lovely Pam Spaulding for the link.

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