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Friday, August 24, 2012

Tomgram: ''Greg Muttitt, Whatever Happened to Iraqi Oil?''

From TomDispatch

''It was about oil (though not oil alone, given the over-determined nature of all events on this planet of ours), while so many of the sophisticated types as well as the geopolitical visionaries of the Bush administration proved dismally wrong, completely mistaken in their assessment of our world of energy and how it might be controlled.  Now, more than eight years later, no one here even wants to think about Iraq and the multi-trillion-dollar war we fought there.  Mission accomplished?  You be the judge.  Recent headlines indicate that the new Iraq is actually helping Iran evade the Obama administration’s oil sanctions.  Think of it as the grim geopolitical version of slapstick comedy.''

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