I guess the 100 year plan backfired: Iraq + China = Oil

[nc4bo]

Thousands were killed for this?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/10/iraq-chin-set-to-revive-1_n_117982.html

BAGHDAD — Iraq and China are set to revive a $1.2 billion oil deal that was canceled after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the Iraq's oil ministry said Sunday.

An initial agreement with China is expected to be signed at the end of August to develop the billion-barrel Ahdab oil field south of Baghdad, the ministry said in a statement.

"Iraq and China are keen to show their cooperation by finalizing an agreement on developing the Ahdab oil field," it said.

The announcement came after a meeting between Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani and China's ambassador to Baghdad.

No further details were released, but if the deal is signed it will be the first Saddam Hussein-era oil deal to be honored by the new Iraqi regime.

In 1997, Saddam's government signed an agreement with the state-owned China National Petroleum Corp., despite United Nations sanctions that barred direct dealings with Iraq's oil industry.

The two countries restarted talks in October 2006.

The field is located near Wasit province, about 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, and could produce an estimated 115,000 barrels a day. Wasit has been the scene of sporadic attacks since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

Iraq sits on more than 115 billion barrels of oil but decades of wars, U.N. sanctions, violence and sabotage have battered its oil industry.

I thought that was the point of this pointless "war". Weren't WE were supposed to get that oil? :sarcasm:

[Radical Activist]

1. Won't happen. This is why we fought the war.

Unless the US has worked out a total alliance with China. The whole point of this war was to control who gets access to that oil. If this goes through my question is, what is the US getting from China for this deal?