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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: FaultLine who started this subject4/4/2003 4:36:55 PM
From: Doug R  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Is this on anybody's radar screen here?>>>

a real foreign affairs swamp:
laborrights.org

made swampier:
The US State Department and vice-president Dick Cheney have hosted two sets of top level meetings with representatives of ExxonMobile, ChevronTexaco, ConocaPhillips and Halliburton.
A senior state official said that the US had "crafted strategies that will allow us to secure and protect those fields as rapidly as possible". According to a report by Deutsche Bank experts, "ExxonMobil's status as the largest US oil company gives it major weight with the US government. "The company may find itself in pole position in a regime-changed Iraq."

the gory details:
laksamana.net
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