From: Greg Jordan (jordan@chuma.cas.usf.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 12:24:30 MST
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 3/21/2003 10:18:39 AM Central Standard Time,
> jordan@chuma.cas.usf.edu quotes: According to the BBC the private contract
> for rebuilding Iraq being negotiated by the Americans explicitly includes:
> a.. the privatisation of Iraqi public industries and Iraq's integration into
> world "globalization"
>
> Don't you suppose that this mainly means that the public industries will no
> longer belong to the Hussein family? That is the normal pattern in a
> dictatorship.
> Ron h.
Actually, that quote was from the poster I responded to.
I have no idea who owned the oil wells on paper (Iraqi law/custom). In my
email I commented on Tony Blair's speech that said the oil profits would
be taken by the UN and redistributed to the Iraqi people - a truly strange
notion, perhaps to deflect the criticism that the war is to take oil for
US and coalition oil interests. But it could just be an extension of the
oil-for-food program the UN already had in place. As usual, nowadays, I
am hearing exactly opposite news claims by various parties.
gej
resourcesoftheworld.org
jordan@chuma.cas.usf.edu
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