Some people feel that Iraq will never be broken up. Sorry, but it's inevitable.
From the beginning, the Bush / Cheney plan has been to break Iraq into three provinces, in order to give easier access to private oil companies. Iraqi violence helps make this Balkanization inevitable.
The Kurdish and Shiite sections have already written their own oil laws governing private oil companies (independent of Baghdad). The Sunni section does not have much oil. Hence the Sunnis rely on the central government in Baghdad. From the very beginning of the 2003 invasion, Sunnis have felt they will be cut out of the oil revenue. Hence, most resistance in Iraq has come from Sunnis.
The defacto breakup will happen on November 17, 2007, when the Kurdish Regional Government votes to include Kirkuk in its sphere on control. The Kurds want Kirkuk because of its oil, and because they consider Kirkuk to be their Jerusalem. They have already signed private deals with Dallas-based Hunt Oil, plus Canada-based Impulse Energy Ltd. (a Hunt partner) plus Heritage Oil (another Canadian company) plus French oil companies.
Congress will have nothing to say about the breakup, since the House will adjourn one day before the Kurdish referendum.
Hunt Oil will begin geological surveys immediately after November 17. Drilling will begin in January 2008. Hunt’s first target will be the Dahuk region in northwestern Iraq near the Turkish border. Thus the crypto-Jewish Barzani clan (which controls the Kurds) is about to become a lot richer, and a lot more independent than they have been since the 2003 U.S. invasion.
This is what the Turkish furor is all about. The genocide recognition is a cover story. It is a means to rally popular Turkish support for an invasion of northern Iraq. Turkey fears Kurdish independence and empowerment in Iraq, since it will inspire Kurds in Turkey to seek independence. Twenty-three nations have already recognized the Armenian genocide, including Zionist-controlled France and Canada (both of which will drill in northern Iraq). This was okay with the Turks. What is not okay is the empowerment of the Kurds through the breakup of Iraq.
This is why the Bush regime opposes the Armenian genocide bill. He does not want the Turkish military to have ammunition in Turkish parliamentary debates. Bush wants the breakup of Iraq to be smooth, with no Turkish invasion.
Cheney and Israel are behind these secret oil deals, and the plan to empower the Kurds. Hence the Turks feel betrayed. Israel wants its pipeline from the Kirkuk oil fields in northern Iraq to Haifa, Israel. The pipeline is not yet operating, but several U.S. military bases are already positioned to protect it for Israel. First, Hunt Oil and its Canadian partner (Impulse Energy Corp.) must extract the oil. The refining will be done in Haifa, Israel--although Heritage Oil of Canada is also about to build a refinery near Kirkuk. (see http://www.heritageoilcorp.com/iraq.htm)
This has nothing to do with Islam. Most Kurds are Sunni Muslims like the Turks, but like the Turks, they are comparatively secular.
Regarding the genocide recognition, most Zionist Jews in the USA oppose it, since the USA can be allowed to recognize only one genocide (the holo-hoax). The few Zionist Jews that support it are those that have many Armenians in their districts.
Israel opposes the genocide recognition because a Turkish invasion will destabilize northern Iraq, thus threatening the pipeline to Haifa.
If the Turkish military can get clearance from the Turkish parliament, the military will invade -- unless Bush and Israel can somehow persuade the Turks not to. The Turkish parliament is currently debating the invasion.
THE OIL DEAL
In August 2007, the Kurdish Regional Government passed its own oil law separately from Baghdad. A week later on 8 September, the Kurds made secret agreements with private oil companies, such as Hunt Oil, which has extremely close ties to Bush. (More on this below.)
On 27 Sep 07 the US Senate passed a bill suggesting Iraq’s partition into three parts, and urging Iraqi officials to agree. The proposal came from Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE). Supporters claim it would let Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish factions settle their differences and make it easier for US troops to return home.
The secret oil deals have angered Turkey, plus the Sunni resistance in Iraq, plus Iran, and everyone else except Israel, since Israel stands to gain from them.
Incredibly, Bush claims he had no knowledge of these private deals. This is a lie, as we shall see below.
Bush repeatedly says he wants all Iraqis to share the oil wealth. These again have all been lies, as evidenced by these oil deals with the Kurds (who are not Arabs). Bush keeps pushing Baghdad to come up with a revenue-sharing plan. This is a distraction while Bush’s oil company friends make separate deals with the Kurds.
Hussein al-Shahristani, Iraq’s Oil minister, denounced the Hunt agreement as illegal. However there is no law to break, since Baghdad has not yet passed an overall plan to share oil revenue. The minister condemned the Kurds’ private oil deals. The Kurds responded by demanding that the minister be fired.
Iraqi Arabs have worked very hard to develop arangements to share oil wealth evenly, but Bush keeps stabbing them in the back. In July 2007, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's national unity cabinet passed a draft law for oil revenue sharing, but the plan was derailed (under U.S. guidance) by the 53 Kurds in the 275-member Iraqi parliament. Indeed, the Kurds have been the primary source of opposition to any progress in Iraq, since they have already made separate arrangements with Bush and israel.
Without a comprehensive plan to share oil oil revenue, there is no Iraq. There is only a collection of armed gangs fighting for control of resources. This is exactly what the Bush / Cheney regime wants, since violence is causing Iraq to break into three parts.
HUNT OIL
Dallas-based Hunt Oil is not as big as the giants, (e.g., Shell, Exxon-Mobil etc) but it is private, and has operations in the Middle East, Africa and South America. Hunt finds the oil, pumps it out, and sells it to the giants for refining. The Hunt Company is like the construction giant Bechtel, which is also private, and also global. Bechtel is involved in the Cheney nuclear industry, and has also built most of the nuclear weapons facilities at the Nevada Test Site.
Ray L. Hunt sits on the Board of Halliburton. He is tight with Bush and Cheney, but keeps his name out of the newspapers as much as possible. Hunt and the now-defunct Enron Corp. have been Bush’s biggest campaign donors.
Hunt gave $35 million to Southern Methodist Univerisity (where Laura Bush went to school) to buy land for build Bush’s presidential library.
Ray Hunt was Bush’s campaign finance manager, since Hunt was chairman of the board for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas from 1998 to 2006.
One month after Sept. 11, 2001, Bush appointed Ray Hunt to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. This group tells Bush how to use the CIA, NSA, etc to advance oil company interests. Bush's former press secretary in the White House, Jim Oberwetter, worked for Ray Hunt for nearly 30 years.
Ray Hunt is also a member of the National Petroleum Council, an industry trade group that advises Cheney on energy matters. Cheney himself was a member of the Petroleum Council when Cheney was CEO for Halliburton.
Ray Hunt also serves on the board of trustees (i.e., he gives money) for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a propaganda mill that supports global oil and gas projects. One of those projects, the Camisea Natural Gas Project, is in the Peruvian Amazon rain forest, where both Hunt Oil and Halliburton's KBR subsidiary are building a natural gas liquefication plant. Environmental groups say this project is the most destructive in the entire Amazon Basin.
Ray Hunt was also the first foreigner to set up oil operations in Yemen (1981). And of course Halliburton continues to do business with “axis of evil” state Iran.
Bush likes Ray Hunt because Hunt is a Texas “cowboy.” As head of a private firm, Hunt can ride his trusted pony around the world, making colorful deals much faster than the publicly held oil giants can. Ray Hunt was Bush's guest at the May 2007 State Dinner for Queen Elizabeth II.
I KNOW NOTHING
Despite Ray Hunt’s extreme closeness to the Bush / Cheney regime, Bush and Cheney claim they had no prior knowledge of Hunt’s private deals with the Kurds.
Ray L. Hunt claims he did not tell Bush anything about it. Jeanne Phillips, Hunt senior vice president for corporate affairs and international relations, said no one in Hunt Oil formally met with any branches of the U.S. government. “Regardless of what people imagine, we just don’t pick up the phone and ask permission to drill oil.”
These of course are lies. The UPI press network obtained State Department memos showing that Hunt Oil has kept Condoleeza Rice fully informed of the Kurd deals.
Hunt operatives are escorted around Iraq by mercenary outfits such as Blackwater. On 5 Sep 07, a Hunt delegation led by David McDonald (Hunt general manager for Europe, Africa and the Middle East) met with officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development in Irbil, the Kurdish capitol. This is mentioned in a State Department communication transmitted 6 Sep 07.
The State Department asked if the Hunt deal with the Kurds would conflict with the recently passed Kurdish hydrocarbon law and a national law. David McDonald in northern Iraq said that “significant opportunity outweighs the legal ambiguity.” (The point is that there has been communication back and forth between Hunt Oil and the Bush regime. Bush and Cheney are lying as always.)
Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) wants a full investigation of the Kurds’ prvate oil deals with Hunt, and with Impulse (of Canada), and with French oil companies, and so on. “The Bush administration desires private control of Iraqi oil,” Kucinich said, “but we have no right to force Iraq to give up their oil. The constitution of Iraq designates that the oil of Iraq is the property of all Iraqi people."
Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass) also wants a full investigation.
THE BREAKUP
By putting his money into a deal with the Kurds, Ray Hunt is betting that the Baghdad government will never get its act together. Indeed, Hunt is betting against that Iraq will cease to be a nation in any meaningful sense of the term.
The surge has failed. The war is lost. However, the Bush / neocon objectives have been won – to split Iraq into three regions.
If the Bush / Cheney regime had ever been serious about “democracy” in Iraq, it could have easily forced the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to start delivering on “benchmarks.” Instead, the Bush / Cheney regime has used all this chatter as camouflage to break up Iraq. The Bush regime makes excuses, minimizes Iraqi failures, moves goal posts, and gives the Maliki government no incentive to do anything differently.
The problem now is Turkey, which does not want a fully independent KRG in northern Iraq, since this will inspire Kurds in Turkey to also seek independence.
How will the Iraq breakup proceed? It all depends on whether the Turks invade. If they do invade, then Bush and Israel will resist them. Bush and Israel do not want their oil deals and their Haifa pipeline interfered with.
One thing is certain: the final breakup of Iraq is about to begin. If the private oil companies thought otherwise, they would never have made deals with the Kurds.
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P.S. --Mesud Barzani, crypto-Jew, is currently the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government. His son is the Prime Minister. His clan members are in similar positions of authority. The main body of the Peshmerga forces (the Kurdish Militia) report to them.
The PKK, established in 1974, is a Marxist-Leninist group primarily composed of Turkish Kurds. It wants an independent Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey, where there is a predominantly Kurdish population. Since 1984 the separatist PKK waged a violent campaign in southeast Turkey, directed against both security forces and civilians, almost all of them Kurds, whom the PKK accuses of cooperating with the State. The government of Turkey in turn waged an intense campaign to suppress the PKK, targeting active PKK units as well as persons they believe support or sympathize with the PKK.
The Peshmerga (Kurdish militia) in northern Iraq are loyal to the Barzani clan. They do not openly support the PKK, and have chased the PKK out of Iraqi Kurdistan in the past. However, if Turkey invades northern Iraq, then the Kurdish Peshmerga may help the PKK in Turkey.
While the PKK focuses on Kurdish independence in Turkey, PJAK focuses on Kurdish independence in Iran. PJAK is secular, like the bizarre MEK cult (a group of Iranians-in-exile that oppose the Iranian government). MEK is led by a woman, Maryam Rajavi. Likewise, PJAK recruits female guerrillas and boasts that its cruelest and fiercest fighters are Iranian women drawn to the movement's radical feminism. PJAK probably numbers less than 1,000 in Qandil, plus thousands more underground in Iran. The PKK in Turkey is thought to number about 4,000.
Submitted by Abdul-Alhazred on Tue, 2007-10-16 17:30
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Before Iraq breaks up, U.S. will break up.
As a matter of fact Iraq, Iran and Middle East are healing themselves and Israel and America are in decline, so forget that B.S. about America able to break up countries!
That is the past!
Huh? It's a done deal. The agreements have been signed. It's all been planned from the start. All of us read about the partition plan years ago.
And as far as the Shiites and Sunnis banding togeter, well, false flags can easily be arranged, and can be done by anyone.
I know it hurts to face reality, but it's necessary if we are ever to have a hope of defeating these creeps.
The great monster golda - goldi - meir, hailed from Wisconsin, USA, would be so proud today.
Tears of utter joy splashing in her grave for the dismemberment of Iraq.
Real catchy, ya know? Wow. She almost had us fooled with such "warmth" and "sentiment".
But then her precious israel then, as it does now, has a peculiar way of showing forgiveness - which actually shows up in the more accurate form of PURE MINDLESS israeli HATRED.
Monster goldie... good for the legacy of Wisconsin.
Oh yeah. Now I understand your reference to her when we were discussing movies.
Hey, speaking of that, wasn't she in a movie herself, back in the early 60s?
Let me see if I can find a poster for it...
heh heh heh
I heard that she had a modest grave marker, but that people come from all over the world to pay their respcts.
I found a photo of it online...
Sure “agreements” have been signed and of course a new Iraqi Constitution (which is being rewritten now) has been drafted… and yes there was a plan from the start for Iraq… All this is very nice, but the fact is that NOTHING has been going according to this plan and the US is in far deeper shit than Western media ever mentions. Please remember Against Zionism that there is no reporting coming out of Iraq except what you can catch between the lines from all the Arabic Iraqi, Shia and Sunni satellite channels and telephone interviews in Arabic. The material in English hardly describes one 1/8th of the reality of the US situation in Iraq. What Americans are being told in the US has become so beyond ridiculous that we in the Arab world have stopped even trying to keep our American friends up to date. The gap between them and reality has become too big for amateurs to cover.
Shias and Sunnis have indeed grouped together despite the daily continuous false flags conducted with American ammunition. Arab states are humoring the United States on the surface, but are on the other hand funding the Iraqi resistance both Sunni and Shia. Sunni states are funding Sunni resistance and Shia states are funding Shia resistance. No country in the Middle East wants to see another war in this region and if the US has to bleed in Iraq in order for a war to be avoided… so be it, all the US “allies” are pitching in for the US to bleed… otherwise the US will bleed them to death. The US with Israel at the helm is already giving Lebanon, Syria, Sudan, Palestine, Iran and even Egypt trouble. On the surface, there are the niceties of diplomacy from American “allies” in the Middle East, but beneath the surface, there is the real world where countries in the Middle East are currently fighting for their survival. Mr. Bush has on several occasions reminded the Middle East how he wishes to spread his model of “Iraqi democracy” to the rest of the Middle East… and the Middle East heard him well.
Did you not notice the “Al Qaeda terrorist” attacks in Morocco and Algeria this year? Did you not notice Ahmadinejad’s visit to Algeria this year and Algeria is a major oil exporter to the US? Did you not notice the US/French rapprochement to Libya? Are you following the Nabucco project? Did you not notice the meeting in Iran on Tuesday between the Caspian Sea countries? Do you know of the present trade relations between Iran and the Gulf states?
You might want to read this: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6862
Since the start of the Iraq war, a whole new balance of power has taken place in the world and the US does not figure well in it despite all the bull-shitty statements coming out of the US government. Yes, the US had plans…, but nothing went according to plan. Despite all the ‘fanfare’, I do firmly believe that the US and Israel are indeed in decline while the Arab world, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia are on the rise.
The US can’t even provide security for the Green zone. It’s “embassy” uses mercenaries for security and not marines (within the compound) or security forces (outside the compound) as is customary in hosting countries. Every few days, one or 2 of the mercenaries guarding the embassy compound dies due to a rocket attack. No company is able to invest in Iraq because they are unable to work in an environment of war. I have a friend who was offered a job in Iraq at an extremely high salary. I advised him not to go because of the security situation, but the salary was so high that he wanted to consider the offer. He made some inquiries and found out that the reason the salary was this high was that it would all be spent on the cost of hiring mercenaries to guard him. He is a normal average working chap who doesn’t even have any interest in politics…, but in Iraq, you just can’t move unless you are accompanied by a convoy of mercenaries. He didn’t take the job when he found out how he would have to live. No one is taking jobs in Iraq and Iraqis kill anyone who thinks of taking a job there and helping Americans achieve their plans for Iraq. Things are very very very very far from being rosy for the US in Iraq. Yes, many deals have been signed…, but how many of them have actually materialized? Have you ever heard of embedded reconstruction teams?? lol… check this out http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00264.htm They can only work 3 or 4 times a week…and that is in cities which have been ethnically cleansed… plus they can only get out when guarded by army brigades!
This is what Zalmay Khalilzad said in May 2006 about “Rebuilding Iraq”:
“From the business perspective, the question is when and how to become involved in Iraq. While acting now undeniably involves risks, waiting might entail the risk of missing fleeting opportunities as Iraq’s energy industry, agricultural sector, and tourism industry take shape.
For those understandably concerned about security, I remind you that fourteen of Iraq’s eighteen provinces have little or no insurgent or terrorist violence. Two days ago, I was in the north at Erbil for the inauguration of the Kurdish Regional Government. On the short drive from the airport to the assembly hall, I saw a dozen construction cranes, symbols of the economic boom in northern Iraq. In the south, there is a great deal of construction to take advantage of business opportunities to serve religious pilgrims. Iraqis are not waiting for security problems to be resolved to start their businesses and to create possibilities for joint ventures or other investments.
At the same time, we are working to expand economic opportunity in the more violent areas of Iraq. Later this month, we will be inaugurating a PRT in Anbar Province. We are working with Sunni Arab leaders to reduce the violence in Anbar and other provinces in central and western Iraq.
As part of this effort, we need to find creative ways to increase economic activity – to create jobs and hope for the people of this region. We are eager to hear your ideas about how we can work together even now to increase business activity to help stabilize troubled areas.
Iraqis are turning against the terrorists in places like Anbar because they realize that extremism causes professionals to flee, educational opportunity to suffer, and drives commerce and jobs away to other regions.”
Well… Zalmay miscalculated as did the US. Only the Kurdish province (without Kirkuk) is relatively secure and flourishing…, but now turkey is getting involved. Everybody knew that neither Turkey or Iran would ever accept Kurdish independence because that would mean maybe losing parts of their territories too. There are no 18 secure Iraqi states as Zalmay said… This is talk for Western mass consumption. Iraqis are not rebuilding anything. 80% or Iraqis don’t have water or electricity. 4 million are refugees without a roof on their head and over a million have been killed. Iraqis can’t find a toilet to go to let alone reconstruct their country. Iraqi priority number one is to get rid of Americans. Zalmay speaks confidently of the US “collaboration” with some leaders in Anbar and about Iraqis turning against the “terrorists” in Anbar…lol. The moment the top man in Anbar shook George Bush’s hand he was killed a few days later. So much for what the Iraqis think of American pathetic attempts to cajole some leaders in Anbar or anywhere else in Iraq. Iraq is in total anarchy. It is unlivable and I can’t see any business flourishing their until it becomes a livable country again.
Against Zionism… I agree with you that in order to defeat the creeps, we have to face realities… and the truth does hurt… but what are Iraq’s realities? Do you really think that Iraq is a safe business environment? From my perspective and from I see and hear on Iraqi TV and from Iraqis, it isn’t. If the US army were a strong controlling army able to provide a secure environment for investors to work in, then I would agree with you. But the US army is weak, demoralized and defeated. It is not even an army. It is a 50% army and a 50% corps of disobedient mercenaries from all over the world. The act of actually dividing Iraq into 3 independent entities takes a strong occupying force and that is hardly the case of the US army or the United States. The US army in Iraq is finished. Israel wants to drag the US further and the Israel lobby is working very hard at that. The question is: will American allow this or will they take a stand this time? Have they learned from the Iraq experience or haven’t they? You are probably in a better position to answer these questions than I am. I feel that many Americans have indeed woken up from their slumber…, but have they woken up in time or did they wake up too late. Everybody except for Israel of course, is hoping that the Americans have finally woken up.
I agree with you that in order to defeat the creeps, we have to face realities… and the truth does hurt… but what are Iraq’s realities? Do you really think that Iraq is a safe business environment?
No it’s not a safe business environment. If it were, the oil giants would have been in Iraq by now. Nonetheless, the Kurds have signed deals with smaller oil companies. The plan to split up Iraq existed from the start, and now the Kurds are about to break away. Once the Kurds include Kirkuk and Mosul in their region, they won’t give it up without a fight.
Of course, all bets are off if Turkey invades. The Turks are aware of all these oil deals, and are not happy. The Iranians aren’t happy either. So far the Kurdish areas have been comparatively stable, but if Turkey invades, the oil companies will have to postpone drilling. I hope the Turks do invade. The more problems for Bush, the better.
”The act of dividing Iraq into 3 independent entities takes a strong occupying force and that is hardly the case of the US army or the United States.”
Force is not required. The Kurds are doing this themselves.
”The question is: will American allow this or will they take a stand this time? Have they learned from the Iraq experience or haven’t they? I feel that many Americans have indeed woken up from their slumber…but have they woken up in time, or did they wake up too late? Everybody except for Israel of course, is hoping that the Americans have finally woken up.”
The American public woke up a long time ago. They see Bush on the TV and immediately switch the channel. They can’t stand Bush. They know he is evil, and a liar. They are shocked and dismayed at the torture and the killing. They feel their country has entered a nightmare of blood. They can take no more. So much death. So much blood.
However…
Most Americans are afraid. They don’t trust each other. They don’t know who’s an informer. They can say nothing against israel in their everyday lives, because if a Jew is nearby, that Jew will get you fired from your job. If anybody thinks I’m exaggerating, I challenge him or her to openly criticize israel in his workplace. Try it and see what happens. Jews absolutely control the USA. Anyone who says different is either a zionist, or living in a dream world.
The American public longs for this war to end. They are depressed. They are horrified. They are angry. But…as I said, they are also afraid. They feel lonely. The media is radically pro-israel (since Jews own the media).
Most Americans would love to see Bush get defeated. They absolutely hate him. They see him as a madman, a monster, a bloodthirsty dictator. They hate Cheney even more. They are deeply ashamed about things like Guantanamo.
Many Americans look at their fellow Americans and think they are lazy or weak or stupid, or don’t care about the killing. Not true. Americans are scared.
They are depressed about the killing in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, and everywhere else, but they are powerless against their tyrannical government. Bush recently vetoed a measure to provide healthcare to poor children in the USA, yet there is always money for killing, killing, and more killing.
Yes, the American public woke up a long time ago. In fact, now Americans have trouble sleeping. One of the biggest selling pharmaceutical drugs in the USA are sleep aids. Americans are under extreme stress, and every day brings a new horror from Iraq or Palestine. Every day.
Americans know their country is dying, but they are powerless to stop it.