Why is the U.S.gov. trying to deny Iraq the control of their natural resources(OIL)?

Question

In some of President Bush's 'Iraqi benchmarks' he is requiring Iraq to open their oil up to foreign oil companies in a bidding contest.

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getpage.cgi?dbname=2007_record&page=H5641&position=all

The above link is a government link that details Congressional minutes.
Read this for yourself!

Shouldn't Iraq be able to decide for itself how it wants to handle their own natural resources?

Bonneville P: Did you read the provided link?
I do not lie!
I even provided you the government link and you 'choose' to deny F A C T S!!
Why?
Click on the link and you will see you are wrong!

coragryph: This is acceptable to you?
I see this as legalized pillaging!

Locutus: Oh for heaven's sake!
Look up 'Iraq Hydrocarbon Act' and you will see this is one of the '18 Benchmarks' the White House wrote up and presented to Congress to present the Iraqi Parliament!!

born_in_the_usa: They should be able to leave it sit in the sand if they want to or bathe in it daily or refine it for their own personal use if they want to!!

Not every country wants to be apart of the Global Economy!!

IT'S THEIR OIL!!!!!

Answer 1

let me guess, you're trying to get ideas for a thesis for your summer school political studies? Am I right, huh, huh?

Answer 2

Iraq is a subject nation, under military occupation, with a government established and approved by the occupiers. The normal rules for international relations don't apply.

The bidding process for oil sales was intended to ensure market competition, except the net result would have been the US gaining exclusive rights to purchase the oil at reduced rates.

Answer 3

The U.S. did no longer attack the Iraqi people. We attacked and defeated Saddam Hussein and his secular yet oftentimes Sunni regime, that had mass murdered the Iraqi people, specifically Shiites and Kurds, in area by using chemical weapons of mass destruction. it incredibly is UNDISPUTED actuality. Saddam and his sons are lifeless as a consequence of our strikes, and those of the Iraqi government, and "Chemical Ali" has been sentenced to dangle by the Iraqi government, for his area contained in using chemical WMD's. U.S. forces have persisted to conflict radical Islamic terrorism and characteristic secure and rebuilt the Iraqi infrastructure, which contain the oil rigs, for the earnings of the Iraqi people. The U.S. in no longer pressuring the Iraqi government to grant administration of the oil to U.S. oil organizations, and has in no way finished so. This has in no way been the reason or action of the two the Democrat or Republican events. Our oil organizations stand waiting to assist interior the restoration of broken Iraqi oil production centers and to assist them in prducing oil for the international marketplace and for his or her own earnings, as do different oil organizations international. The U.S. takes little or no oil from Iraq. The assertion by "Westhill" is erroneous. Hunt is neither a board member nor a director of Halliburton. verify this on the cyber web.

Answer 4

Because his family is part owners in the oil fields in Iraq.

He has his puppets fighting for his family...not the US or for the betterment of the Iraqi citizens.

That is why he made sure that he could not be charged with war crimes. :)

Answer 5

Since Iraq has a very unstable government (for reasons of...let's say us occupying and bombing them). It is quite easy for Bush to come in and require Iraq to do anything he wants with the oil....isn't that why we are there in the first place?
Come on all of you brainwashed bush zombie fanatics, pull your head out and realize we "aint there cuz of osama or terrorism". Your right wing think tank mantras are getting very boring.

Answer 6

Iraq can't even control Bagdad how are they going to assume the responsibilty of their precious resources on a global level.

Kelly this is the most valuble and practically the only resource Iraq has to build their economy on. If they are smart they won't sit on it. They can't eat sand.

Answer 7

Because Bush (er... I mean the pupper master Cheney) promised it to his buddies when he had those meeting that he would not let the Congress even know who attended back at the beginning of their administration.

Answer 8

Just because some idiot got on the floor and said it or wrote it up and had it entered into the record does not make it true.

You need something better than that.

Answer 9

That's is called free trade.

Answer 10

WHAAAAT???!!! ....THAT'S THE BIGGEST LIE OF THE DAY...