do you find it disturbing that the Iraq study group called for the privatisation of iraq's oil resources?

Question

or maybe it was just confusing seeing as the U.S. was trying to conceal the fact that they were privatising iraqi oil. was the Iraq study group even paying attention?

'their elected governement cant even keep the streets clean and safe'

uh the bulk of the reconstruction was contracted out to U.S. companies. that's what the U.S. contracters are supposed to be paid for.

Answer 1

Is anybody really surprised that the US wants privatization? its like a religion sometimes!

Answer 2

Not at all. Privatization will build capitalism, which will in turn lead to a society not unlike other western societies.
The production and security of the oil and it's flow will be one of the owners, and those can be the Iraqi people if they wish to invest in said company(s).

The alternative is what you are seeing happen in Russia, where Vlad Putin is nationalizing all oil production, which is actually about using the money/oil for his own power.

Answer 3

Typical solution to get private dollars in there and government control out. Then we start fair competition and a bidding war. This is a method that is used to stabilize undeveloped countries major resources, and create fair competition. It is also a shell in Iraq, because con, and give them a chance to become listed -- have shareholders. Same in Russia and tried in Venezuela and failed.

Answer 4

why, first of all its their oil, they can do with it whatever they want, second, their elected governement cant even keep the streets clean and safe, so how can they run a oil companie.

Answer 5

remember USA is there to get the " weapon of mass destruction " called OIL !