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October 01, 2005
They Came, They Saw, They Screwed It Up
Michael Klare via TomDispatch takes a look at American "oil policy" in Iraq - pre-war to post-Katrina.
Also,
The failure to rebuild key components of Iraq's petroleum industry has impeded oil production and may have permanently damaged the largest of the country's vast oil fields, American and Iraqi experts say.Engineering mistakes, poor leadership and shifting priorities have delayed or led to the cancellation of several projects critical to restoring Iraq's oil industry, according to interviews of more than two dozen current and former U.S. and Iraqi officials and industry experts.
In-fighting and some really dumb screw ups - read it and weep.
Posted by smashmonster at October 1, 2005 05:13 PM