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• Thursday, September 4, 2008 02:17 PM

  Oh, there is some coverage of Iraq, I guess:

  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/world/middleeast/30contract.html

  U.S. Advised Iraqi Ministry on Oil Deals

  By ANDREW E. KRAMER

  Published: June 30, 2008

  "A group of American advisers led by a small State Department team played an integral part in drawing up contracts between the Iraqi government and five major Western oil companies to develop some of the largest fields in Iraq, American officials say."

  "The disclosure, coming on the eve of the contracts’ announcement, is the first confirmation of direct involvement by the Bush administration in deals to open Iraq’s oil to commercial development and is likely to stoke criticism."

  Hand over control - wow, that sounds great.

  Are you going to sit there with a straight face and claim that U.S. military bases have been removed from the region? Is there no more U.S. military presence in Anbar province? Have those troops packed up and headed home?

  Just a political stunt, repeated by the "liberal media" verbatim, without analysis.

  Kind of like the claim that Sarah Palin's $500 million subsidy gift to Transcanada (backed up by $18 billion in loan guarantees from the U.S. Congress) is for "the lower 48".

  It's not - it's for Albertan tar sand production. Yes, the media does lie to the American public on a rountine basis. That's what they're paid to do.

  —CargoCult Read CargoCult's other letters
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