PROJECT FOR A NEW AMERICAN CENTURY [PNAC] ~"BOOBS"

http://www.newamericancentury.org<CLICK The Project for the New American Century is a non-profit educational organization dedicated .. TO:

• American leadership is good both for America
• and for the world; and, 
• that such leadership requires military strength,
• diplomatic energy and, 
• commitment to moral principle,

.. A few fundamental propositions ... (?!)
The Project for the New American Century intends, through issue briefs, research papers, advocacy journalism, conferences, and seminars, to explain what American world leadership entails. It will also strive to rally support for a vigorous and principled policy of American international involvement and to stimulate useful public debate on foreign and defense policy and America's role in the world.

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Iraq 10 Years On: from Death to Dollars - How Kurds Struck It Rich, By Patrick Cockburn  Source: The Independent, Monday, March 11, 2013; Weekend Edition March 8-10, 2013, The Shia and the Kurds 10 Years After the Invasion, Death and Dollars in the New Iraq, by PATRICK COCKBURN http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/08/death-and-dollars-in-the-new-iraq/<CLICK

At the heart of the boom are 50 or 60 foreign oil companies seeking to find and exploit Kurdistan’s oil, on better terms and with greater security and official backing than they could find in the rest of Iraq. This influx started with small and obscure foreign companies in the years after the fall of Saddam in 2003....

When the Kurds first encouraged foreign oil companies to look for oil on territory they controlled, Baghdad was sanguine. In 2007 Iraq’s Oil Minister Hussein Shahristani, now Deputy Prime Minister in charge of energy-related issues, said to me that, even if foreign oil companies found oil, they would not be able to export it. He asked sarcastically: “Are they going to carry it out in buckets?”....

A new pipeline is being built between the KRG and Turkey, which in theory would enable the Kurds to export crude and get paid for it without permission from Baghdad. This would give the five million Iraqi Kurds an economically and politically independent state for the first time in their history after decades of war, ethnic cleansing and genocide. On the other hand, Turkey may decide that it is not in its interests to defy Baghdad and break up Iraq....

One Kurdish observer said: “We Kurds have one of the most complicated political situations in the world"....

The political geography of the Middle East is changing in ways that so far are to the advantage of the Iraqi Kurds, though the trends may not always be so. The KRG consists of three provinces – Erbil, Dohuk and Sulaimanya – that won de facto autonomy in 1991 after the Kurdish uprising in the wake of the first Gulf War. This area expanded dramatically in 2003 as the Kurdish pesh merga militiamen advanced and Saddam Hussein’s forces collapsed. The Kurds captured Kirkuk and its oilfields as well as a swathe of territory north and east of Mosul and have never been likely to give it up. An explosive aspect of the deal with ExxonMobil in 2010 is that three of its six exploration blocks are outside the KRG, but inside territories disputed between Kurds and Arabs and between the governments in Erbil and Baghdad.  Last year pesh merga and Iraqi troops confronted each other along the so-called “trigger” line, stretching from the Syrian to the Iranian border .... CON'T

The Independent, PATRICK COCKBURN http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/08/death-and-dollars-in-the-new-iraq/<CLICK