Sunday, August 31, 2008

NeoCon's "New American Century" isn't even working

Check these out. We spend the better part of a trillion dollars on the effort and look where the contract goes. That's what happens when you go in pushing people around disrespectfully.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/world/middleeast/29iraq.html?ref=world
"Iraq Signs Oil Deal With China Worth Up to $3 Billion"
By ERICA GOODE and RIYADH MOHAMMED
Published: August 28, 2008

BAGHDAD — In the first major oil deal Iraq has made with a foreign country since 2003, the Iraqi government and the China National Petroleum Corporation have signed a contract in Beijing that could be worth up to $3 billion, Iraqi officials said Thursday...Rest of article here.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-fiw-chinairaq29-2008aug29,0,1138339.story
"China, Iraq to revive oil field development deal;
The project was canceled after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion"
By Elaine Kurtenbach, The Associated Press August 29, 2008

SHANGHAI -- China and Iraq have signed a $3-billion deal revising an earlier agreement for China's biggest oil company to help develop the Ahdab oil field, an official at Iraq's Oil Ministry said Thursday...Rest of article here.


Aloha, Brad

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