[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: The oil is flowing freely in Iraq - for now.

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
The oil is flowing freely in Iraq - for now.
http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1151681565.shtml


   [1]Via the Examiner:

     BEIJI, Iraq - For more than two years the attacks came like
     clockwork. As soon as the military secured and workers repaired the
     pipelines from Iraq's northern oil fields, just when the valves
     were about to open, insurgents would strike. But roughly three
     weeks ago they suddenly stopped, letting crude oil flow freely from
     Iraq's vast reserves near Kirkuk.

     Perhaps insurgents feared reprisals in Salahuddin province, where
     pipelines from Kirkuk flow to the country's largest refinery in
     Beiji. Maybe terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death disrupted a
     chain of command that ordered the attacks, military officials said.

     Whatever the cause, the U.S. forces welcome the change, even if
     history since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 has shown the free flow
     of oil in Iraq is only temporary at best.

     I just hope that it lasts long enough where people start realizing
     'Damn, we're making money. We could be rich like Kuwaitis," said
     Army Lt. Col. Craig Collier, deputy commander of the 3rd Brigade,
     101st Airborne Division. "But what is really going on? We don't
     know."

   Great news that the oil is flowing freely, but sort of bad that we
   don't know why..

   [Link thanks to [2]Ace]

References

   1. http://www.examiner.com/a-163773~Oil_Flows_Freely_Again_in_Northern_Iraq.html
   2. http://ace.mu.nu/archives/183997.php