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Iraq: US Stays the Course for Big Oil

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Asia Times via Info Clearing House - Dec 13, 2006
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15892.htm

US staying the course for Big Oil in Iraq

By Pepe Escobar

Washington at large and President George W Bush and Vice President Dick
Cheney in particular may apply every contortionist trick in the geopolitical
book to save their skins in Iraq - and the reasons are not entirely
political.

In addition to the recently released report by the Iraq Study Group, any
other Washington establishment report - Pentagon, State Department,
think-tanks - considered by the White House cannot deviate from much of the
ISG. There can be no firm timeline for a complete US withdrawal because it
all depends on Iraq's new oil law being passed and US troops being able to
defend Big Oil's investment.