McCain and Graham slam Obama for Iraq violence....'what a surprise!'
---these U.S. senators don't blame al qaeda, they blame the President---
Washington (CNN) - As the Iraqi army and al Qaeda-linked militants battle for control of the city of Falluja, Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham are slamming the Obama administration for its Iraq policy.
More than two years after the administration failed to reach a status of forces agreement with Iraq and withdrew all American combat troops from the country, the two senior Republican senators are blaming President Barack Obama for the violence erupting there this week.
"While many Iraqis are responsible for this strategic disaster, the administration cannot escape its share of the blame. When President Obama withdrew all U.S. forces from Iraq in 2011, over the objections of our military leaders and commanders on the ground, many of us predicted that the vacuum would be filled by America's enemies and would emerge as a threat to U.S. national security interests. Sadly, that reality is now clearer than ever," said McCain, of Arizona, and Graham, of South Carolina, in a statement.
Iraq's Shiite-led government sent military forces into Sunni-dominated Anbar province in the west to end anti-government protests late last week.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/04/mccain-and-graham-slam-obama-for-iraq-violence/
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Barack Obama wasn't in the senate and didn't have a vote on the iraq war...
Western oil firms remain as US exits Iraq
The end of the US military occupation does not mean Iraqis have full control of their oil.
On November 27, 38 months after Royal Dutch Shell announced its pursuit of a massive gas deal in southern Iraq, the oil giant had its contract signed for a $17bn flared gas deal.
Three days later, the US-based energy firm Emerson submitted a bid for a contract to operate at Iraq's giant Zubair oil field, which reportedly holds some eight million barrels of oil.
Earlier this year, Emerson was awarded a contract to provide crude oil metering systems and other technology for a new oil terminal in Basra, currently under construction in the Persian Gulf, and the company is installing control systems in the power stations in Hilla and Kerbala.
Iraq's supergiant Rumaila oil field is already being developed by BP, and the other supergiant reserve, Majnoon oil field, is being developed by Royal Dutch Shell. Both fields are in southern Iraq.
According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), Iraq's oil reserves of 112 billion barrels ranks second in the world, only behind Saudi Arabia. The EIA also estimates that up to 90 per cent of the country remains unexplored, due to decades of US-led wars and economic sanctions.
"Prior to the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq, US and other western oil companies were all but completely shut out of Iraq's oil market," oil industry analyst Antonia Juhasz told Al Jazeera. "But thanks to the invasion and occupation, the companies are now back inside Iraq and producing oil there for the first time since being forced out of the country in 1973."
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/12/2011122813134071641.html
Will America Survive the last 13 years of Bush regime still impeded in Washington?
The political propaganda says we didn’t go to war for oil, but the facts differ, no matter now if US citizens end up getting the gas or not its on the market, Big Oil Profits from Iraq’s oil. Libya oil just went back on line dropping global oil prices. McCain and Graham should both put out to pasture, in the next 20 years guys like the Koch Bros to Karl Rove will be dead and then maybe we can get back on track as the United States of America, keeping this guys in check will help to quell the neocons.
on a guy who inherited the both the mess AND the SOFA that made us leave? 
But then, Johnnie Mac still thinks we could have "won" Vietnam.
