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thomhartmann

(3,979 posts) Tue Mar 20, 2018, 05:02 PM Mar 2018

The Occupation Of Iraq: A Radical Experiment in Libertarian Ideology

This week marks the 15th anniversary of George Bush's invasion and occupation of Iraq, a war that started and continued, as a radical experiment in libertarian philosophy.

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With most of the oil fields signed over by Paul Bremer, in secret, to British interests. sandensea Mar 2018 #1

sandensea

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1. With most of the oil fields signed over by Paul Bremer, in secret, to British interests.

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Tue Mar 20, 2018, 08:56 PM

Mar 2018

British interests had, of course, controlled Iraqi oil resources through the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) - until a nationalist regime nationalized them in 1972. Suffice it to say, they never gave up on the idea of taking the oil back someday.

When our friends in the GOP wonder why the war "didn't pay for itself," there's their answer.

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