As we have been documenting on WORLDMEETS.US for the past few weeks, the controversy over the U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement [SOFA] has been well represented in that nation’s newspapers. The agreement, now in the hands of the Iraqi National Assembly, was due to be voted on today, but the vote has been postponed at least until tomorrow.
This editorial from the Shiite-leaning Iraqi News Agency offers a new twist on the situation. According to the editorial, the SOFA is being used to distract the attention of people from the still-unsigned Iraq Oil Law. That’s right – after all of the commotion last year over the Oil Law, it was never signed, and many Iraqis continue to believe that this is the real priority for the United States.
“After Iraqis and Arabs argued for months about an oil agreement , the issue seems to have been “lost.” Suddenly, people have forgotten about it, and many don’t know or recall what became of the deal, which would “organize” the theft and looting of Iraq’s oil wealth, offering unprecedented legitimacy to thievery in broad daylight … The resistance is capable of shooting down this agreement just as it shot down such agreements in the days of the British occupation and the successive governments they imposed.”
EDITORIAL
Translated By James Jacobson
November 22, 2008
Iraq – Iraq News Agency – Original Article (Arabic)
The invader-American administration and its local government in Iraq continue a step-by-step strategy that was inaugurated by Henry Kissinger on the Egyptian front during [former Egyptian President] Sadat’s administration. Sadat was killed in 1981, and whatever his agenda may have been, he was used by the Zionist enemy against Palestinians to dismantle and fragment the political agenda and isolate Arabs from one another.
After Iraqis and Arabs argued for months about an oil agreement , the issue seems to have been “lost.” Suddenly, people have forgotten about it, and many don’t know or recall what became of the deal, which would “organize” the theft and looting of Iraq’s oil wealth, offering unprecedented legitimacy to thievery in broad daylight.
[Editor’s Note: It might surprise people to know that the Iraq Oil Law, which was such a hot topic of debate last year – still hasn’t been passed by the Iraqi National Assembly. So far, only a small number of piecemeal one- and two-year oil agreements have been reached ].
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