December 04, 2007

Cheney browbeats Kurdistan. Sigh.

First, if the US fails at this, it risks other Kurds coming in and handing the entire pie over to the Chinese and the Indian business interests, so one can say "About time!" if you believe that US geopolitical goals are actually furthered by this fiasco in the making.

On the other hand, it is fair to ask: what is the new agitprop show is going on the road soon ??!!

Ain't it fine when one set of crook$ mets with another set of crook$?

What pray tell is the US doing a sovereign nation what it's policy should be? Oh, you forgot, Irak/Kurdistan is not a US property, didn't you .. c'mon admit it! You just completely forgot!

The rightwinger blog I found this one had the comment:

If anyone can do it, Dick can do it!!

they were REAL pleased about this.

Impeach the basTARD.

Virginia


US Vice President Cheney and Iraqi Kurdistan leaders meet About Oil

Cheney met with two senior leaders of the KRG.

03 December 2007 (The Washington Post)

Vice President Cheney met on Friday with two senior leaders from the regional government in Kurdistan region in 'northern Iraq' who have been wooing U.S. oil companies despite earlier State Department criticism of Kurdish leaders for signing oil and gas exploration deals. Cheney's office said that the vice president met with Omer Fattah Hussain, deputy prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, and Ashti Abdullah Hawrami, the regional minister of oil and natural resources. For more than a year, the Bush administration has been pressing Iraqi leaders to agree on a national petroleum law, seeing it as an important step toward uniting different regions.

In September, State Department officials called the Washington representatives of major oil companies to discourage them from signing deals with the Kurdistan regional government, which adopted its own petroleum law in August.

Advisers to the Iraqi Kurds said yesterday that they saw the meetings that Kurdish officials had with Cheney and with Reuben Jeffery, undersecretary of state for economic, energy and agricultural affairs, as signs of a change in U.S. attitudes.
"This is the first really high-level engagement for a long time and certainly since the oil law was started,"
said Jonathan Morrow, an adviser to the Kurdistan Regional Government.
"Far from the U.S. taking it as an opportunity to lean on the Kurds and ask them to withdraw from their position on Iraqi federalism in the oil sector, they're brainstorming with the Kurds on how to break the impasse in Baghdad."
Kurdish authorities signed a dozen oil and gas exploration contracts in November, bringing to 20 the total number of contracts signed. Shares of DNO Asa, a Norwegian oil company that entered an exploration agreement with Kurdistan regional authorities in 2005, jumped 13 percent yesterday in Oslo after the firm reported encouraging production tests and raised reserve estimates in its exploration bloc in Kurdistan 'northern Iraq'.

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