The oil companies, and all their cronies in the Bush White House. The ISG's biggest impact is not about the war....it's about the privatization of the oil fields of Iraq.
And all this back and forth about the Surrender Monkeys, etc? All for show. Do not be fooled. Jim Baker & Co are squarely on the side of Bush & Co when it comes to the oil money waiting to be looted from Iraq. All that Democracy talk, etc? Hogwash.
It's the OIL, stupid. And the privatization will be written into the Iraq constitution. Remember all that talk about the Iraq oil revenues would pay for the war AND the reconstruction of Iraq? Get real. Not gonna happen. Never was.
Alternet: In its heavily anticipated report released on Wednesday, the Iraq Study Group made at least four truly radical proposals. The report calls for the United States to assist in privatizing Iraq's national oil industry, opening Iraq to private foreign oil and energy companies, providing direct technical assistance for the "drafting" of a new national oil law for Iraq, and assuring that all of Iraq's oil revenues accrue to the central government....Baker had much to gain from increased access to Iraq's oil. ... (Eagleburger is also connected to Halliburton, having only recently departed the company's board of directors). Baker is a longtime associate and now senior partner of Baker Botts, which this year, for the second year running, was recipient of "The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers Oil & Gas Law Firm of the Year Award," while the Middle East remains a central focus of the firm
