Thrice
09-22-2007, 01:39 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/08/AR2007090801195.html
Texas' Hunt Oil Co. and Kurdistan's regional government said Saturday they've signed a production-sharing contract for petroleum exploration in northern Iraq, the first such deal since the Kurds passed their own oil and gas law in August.
Iraq's oil minister Hussain al-Shahristani calls deal illegal.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/10/business/EU-FIN-Austria-Iraq-Hunt-Oil.php
"Any oil deal has no standing as far as the government of Iraq is concerned," al-Shahristani said as he arrived for an OPEC meeting in Vienna. "All these contracts have to be approved by the Federal Authority before they are legal. This (contract) was not presented for approval. It has no standing."
Guess which politicians have been linked to Hunt Oil financially...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20070921/cm_thenation/1235197
Americans would do well to pay an equal measure of attention to the still largely submerged discussion about an Iraqi oil deal that will pay huge benefits to the Hunt Oil Company, a Texas firm closely linked to the administration. How closely? When he was running Halliburton, Cheney invited Hunt Oil Company CEO Ray Hunt to serve on the firm's board of directors. Hunt, a "Bush Pioneer" fund raiser during in 2000 who went on to serve as donated the tidy sum of $35 million to the Bush presidential library building fund.
Now here's the funny part, Bush "expresses concern" over Hunt deal.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/092107dnbuskurdishoil.34410bf.html
"To the extent that it does undermine the ability for the government to come up with an oil revenue-sharing plan that unifies the country, obviously I'm – if it undermines that, I'm concerned."
And now here's the part that I personally love. My newest myspace pal, Congressman Dennis Kucinich is the first politician to call Bush on his bullshit and is demanding a congressional inquiry be made into this deal and how deeply the Hunt Oil ties run within the White House.
http://kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=74507
“I am calling for a Congressional investigation to determine the role the Administration may have played in the Hunt-Kurdistan deal, the effect the deal will have on the oil revenue sharing plan and the attempt by the Administration to privatize Iraqi oil.
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Dennis Kucinich is the closest thing to a decent human being currently in office.
Texas' Hunt Oil Co. and Kurdistan's regional government said Saturday they've signed a production-sharing contract for petroleum exploration in northern Iraq, the first such deal since the Kurds passed their own oil and gas law in August.
Iraq's oil minister Hussain al-Shahristani calls deal illegal.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/10/business/EU-FIN-Austria-Iraq-Hunt-Oil.php
"Any oil deal has no standing as far as the government of Iraq is concerned," al-Shahristani said as he arrived for an OPEC meeting in Vienna. "All these contracts have to be approved by the Federal Authority before they are legal. This (contract) was not presented for approval. It has no standing."
Guess which politicians have been linked to Hunt Oil financially...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20070921/cm_thenation/1235197
Americans would do well to pay an equal measure of attention to the still largely submerged discussion about an Iraqi oil deal that will pay huge benefits to the Hunt Oil Company, a Texas firm closely linked to the administration. How closely? When he was running Halliburton, Cheney invited Hunt Oil Company CEO Ray Hunt to serve on the firm's board of directors. Hunt, a "Bush Pioneer" fund raiser during in 2000 who went on to serve as donated the tidy sum of $35 million to the Bush presidential library building fund.
Now here's the funny part, Bush "expresses concern" over Hunt deal.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/092107dnbuskurdishoil.34410bf.html
"To the extent that it does undermine the ability for the government to come up with an oil revenue-sharing plan that unifies the country, obviously I'm – if it undermines that, I'm concerned."
And now here's the part that I personally love. My newest myspace pal, Congressman Dennis Kucinich is the first politician to call Bush on his bullshit and is demanding a congressional inquiry be made into this deal and how deeply the Hunt Oil ties run within the White House.
http://kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=74507
“I am calling for a Congressional investigation to determine the role the Administration may have played in the Hunt-Kurdistan deal, the effect the deal will have on the oil revenue sharing plan and the attempt by the Administration to privatize Iraqi oil.
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Dennis Kucinich is the closest thing to a decent human being currently in office.