US not the only one after Iraqi oil. The neo-cons get their way.

[lottie244]

http://www.jewishsf.com/bk030418/i22b.shtml

"With Baghdad effectively in American hands, Israel and Jordan are testing the political waters to see whether the Haifa-Mosul pipeline could once again pump oil from Iraq to Israel's major port city."

[Lerkfish]

1. yes...

of course.

[Veggie Meathead]

2. Does the U.S. have an obligation to ensure that the Iraqi people

get the lion's share of the benefits instead of the Israeli and Jordanian opportunists? I am willing to bet that the Iraqi people would be cut out of getting any benefits from their oil.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. This is a bit old (it's from April 2003)

Since then, I thought the general consensus has become that the idea was part of Chalabi's big con game. From a Salon article (May 4, 2004)

http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news1/salon8.html

How Ahmed Chalabi Conned the Neocons

"Ahmed Chalabi is a treacherous, spineless turncoat," says L. Marc Zell, a former law partner of Douglas Feith, now the undersecretary of defense for policy, and a former friend and supporter of Chalabi and his aspirations to lead Iraq. "He had one set of friends before he was in power, and now he's got another." While Zell's disaffection with Chalabi has been a long time in the making, his remarks to Salon represent his first public break with the would-be Iraqi leader, and are likely to ripple throughout Washington in the days to come.

Zell, a Jerusalem attorney, continues to be a partner in the firm that Feith left in 2001 to take the Pentagon job. He also helped Ahmed Chalabi's nephew Salem set up a new law office in Baghdad in late 2003. Chalabi met with Zell and other neoconservatives many times from the mid-1990s on in London, Turkey, and the U.S. Zell outlines what Chalabi was promising the neocons before the Iraq war: "He said he would end Iraq's boycott of trade with Israel, and would allow Israeli companies to do business there. He said would agree to rebuild the pipeline from Mosul to Haifa ." But Chalabi, Zell says, has delivered on none of them. The bitter ex-Chalabi backer believes his former friend's moves were a deliberate bait and switch designed to win support for his designs to return to Iraq and run the country.

[lottie244]

4. But it's newer than the intel info for the last terra alert. and it is

important to what is keeping us in Iraq and our children dying.