The theft of Iraq

The US's real aims for Iraq

"The Bush administration's top benchmark, the Iraqi oil law, remains off the statute books, five deadlines and two years since its first draft. Yet the Iraqi cabinet keeps threatening to pass it, despite the lack of a parliamentary majority backing it.

The law would allow regions, represented by sectarian elites originally empowered in 2003, to sign their own contracts, create their own oil laws and develop their own industries, without democratic oversight. This, critics say, could lead to the break-up of the country and create new sectarian, economic and political facts on the ground. One Iraqi oil company manager previously employed by Shell told me, "I see the future of Iraq as the United Arab Emirates... separate states."

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