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"WeThePeople" |
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02 Aug 2003 01:00:58 PM |
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Can neo-con chickenhawks prove that the Iraq invasion wasn't about oil? |
Outrageous Bush Executive Order on Iraq Oil Must Be Investigated
July 28, 2003
EarthRights International
President Bush has issued an Executive Order, so far completely unreported,
that purports to grant broad legal immunity to oil companies operating in
Iraq. The Order is, on its face, outrageous, and should be investigated.
Executive Order 13303, issued on May 22, 2003, claims to be essential to
Iraqi reconstruction efforts. A cursory reading of the Order indicates that
its real purpose is to protect oil companies by giving virtual impunity for
any activities undertaken relating to Iraqi oil.
This Order, with broad language that seems to sweep aside federal statutes,
including the Alien Tort Claims Act, has received no public attention. It
has been brought to light by a researcher with the Sustainable Energy and
Environment Network (SEEN).
Under this Order, an oil company complicit in human rights violations, or
one that causes environmental damage, would be immune from lawsuits. The
language of the Executive Order is so broad that it might as well have been
written by lawyers for Halliburton, ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco.
In 13303, President Bush declares a national emergency as the basis for
protecting the Development Fund for Iraq (an entity intended to fund
reconstruction efforts with oil proceeds, overseen by an international board
including World Bank officials) as well as all Iraqi petroleum, petroleum
products, “interests”, proceeds, and contracts related to Iraqi petroleum.
Claiming that interference with Iraqi petroleum, petroleum products, and
“interests therein” jeopardizes reconstruction efforts in Iraq, EO 13303
offers a wide range of protections to certain persons, entities and assets
associated with the Iraqi oil industry. The document is apparently intended
as a sweeping grant of immunity to individuals, corporations, agencies and
others involved in Iraqi oil sales, marketing, or other oil-related
activities.
The Order provides protection at both the front end—the activities that
generate the oil—as well as the back—the profits and proceeds that ensue.
U.S. companies engaged in petroleum-related work in Iraq are purportedly
given broad immunity from suits for environmental damage, workplace harms,
contractual disputes, and numerous other wrongs. For example, a U.S. oil
company benefiting from human rights abuses, no matter how egregious,
apparently falls within the Order’s immunity from suit. Similarly, the Order
purports to protect any assets derived from Iraqi oil from judgment,
garnishment, or any other seizure in U.S. courts. For example, if a
corporate entity or an individual engages in criminal activity in the U.S.,
its assets traceable to Iraqi oil are protected by this order. The list of
situations in which a person or corporation could get away with, if not
murder, then at least millions, is endless.
The title of the EO, “Protecting the Development Fund for Iraq and Certain
Other Property in Which Iraq Has an Interest,” is a sham. This EO may be
about Iraq, but it’s also about the oil industry exclusively. (Remember the
Administration has claimed that the Iraq war had nothing to do with oil?)
There is nothing at all about protecting humanitarian organizations,
communications, computer or electrical companies, or other industries that
are critical to Iraq’s reconstruction.
EarthRights International is joining SEEN and the Government Accountability
Project in investigating the legitimacy of this Order. We call on Congress
to investigate EO 13303 immediately.
http://www.earthrights.org/news/eo13303.shtml
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Bush Defends U.S. Justification for Iraq War
Wed Jul 9, 6:31 PM ET
Asked for the first time about the (Iraq) uranium issue,
Bush said: "There's going to be a lot of attempts to rewrite history."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=584&ncid=584&e=1&u=/nm/20030
709/pl_nm/iraq_bush_dc
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Bush Takes Responsibility for Uranium Claim in Speech
July 30, 2003, 8:37 PM EDT
Washington -- President George W. Bush for the first time Thursday accepted
personal responsibility for a now-discredited claim about Iraqi
uranium-shopping in his State of the Union speech, saying he was responsible
"for everything I say, of course, absolutely."
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/politics/ny-usbush0731,0,269352
..story?coll=ny-lipolitics-headlines
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| User: "Barbara Walker" |
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| Title: Re: Can neo-con chickenhawks prove that the Iraq invasion wasn't about oil? |
02 Aug 2003 02:38:55 PM |
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"WeThePeople" <windriver2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3f2aab5f_1@newsfeed...
President Bush has issued an Executive Order, so far completely
unreported,
that purports to grant broad legal immunity to oil companies operating in
Iraq.
If it is unreported, how do YOU know about it? Are you a DNC operative or
something, a person with some sort of "secret access" to the goings-on of
government?
What utter FOOLS you Democrats are now making of yourselves.
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| User: "Robert" |
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| Title: Re: Can neo-con chickenhawks prove that the Iraq invasion wasn't about oil? |
02 Aug 2003 03:07:53 PM |
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"Barbara Walker" <barbara.walker4@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:jrUWa.34196$cF.12820@rwcrnsc53...
"WeThePeople" <windriver2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3f2aab5f_1@newsfeed...
President Bush has issued an Executive Order, so far completely
unreported,
that purports to grant broad legal immunity to oil companies operating
in
Iraq.
If it is unreported, how do YOU know about it? Are you a DNC operative or
something, a person with some sort of "secret access" to the goings-on of
government?
What utter FOOLS you Democrats are now making of yourselves.
You are the fool barabarawalker because if he can screw the Iraqis he can
screw you
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| User: "help" |
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| Title: Re: Can neo-con chickenhawks prove that the Iraq invasion wasn't about oil? |
02 Aug 2003 09:51:01 PM |
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Hey he works for us silly ))
"Robert" <wayne_s_noches@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:tSUWa.339$Lp5.329@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com...
"Barbara Walker" <barbara.walker4@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:jrUWa.34196$cF.12820@rwcrnsc53...
"WeThePeople" <windriver2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3f2aab5f_1@newsfeed...
President Bush has issued an Executive Order, so far completely
unreported,
that purports to grant broad legal immunity to oil companies operating
in
Iraq.
If it is unreported, how do YOU know about it? Are you a DNC operative
or
something, a person with some sort of "secret access" to the goings-on
of
government?
What utter FOOLS you Democrats are now making of yourselves.
You are the fool barabarawalker because if he can screw the Iraqis he can
screw you
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