Posted on June 5th, 2008 11:32am
By Glenn Hunter
Billionaire oilman Ray Hunt has never talked much about an oil-exploration agreement his Hunt Oil Co. signed last year with the government of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region. Hunt, a close friend of President George W. Bush, is said to have ticked off officials in Washington and Baghdad when [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Oilman Hunt Sees A ‘Soft Partition’ For Iraq
Posted in Iraq, Kurdistan, News on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Iraq Partitioning, Inevitable?
Posted in Articles, Bloggers, Iraq on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By J. W. KRAFT
June 8, 2008
Iraq never should have been a country. Its borders are lines drawn in the sand by colonial powers after World War I. The various peoples have no historic ties to bind them together in neighborly love nor do they have political, religious, or ideological ties. Saddam Hussein was able to [...]
Iraq deserves more credit for its nascent democracy
Posted in Articles, History, Iraq on June 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Iraq deserves more credit for its nascent democracy
By AUSTIN BAY
June 7, 2008
Considering the violent threats, fractured politics and bitter history it confronts, Iraq’s democratic government has accomplished much in two short years.
For a variety of reasons — most self-serving, a few disgustingly dishonest — American and European debate over Iraq all too often [...]
