Oil in Iraq
Revealing the hidden plans to give Iraq's oil reserves to western corporations
In February 2003, in the biggest political demonstration in British history, over a million people marched against the invasion of Iraq, chanting 'No blood for oil'. Now, two years on, the justification for war is still being debated. The feared weapons of mass destruction were never found. Meanwhile, the country continues to be gripped by violence.
It is well known that Iraq sits on the world's second largest oil reserves, and has some of the cheapest production costs. But how did the USA and Britain hope to benefit from the invasion? What role would they have in Iraq's oil future?
Source: http://www.carbonweb.org/iraq.htm