In article <100cfefe20e30e0e43bc870eb3cd45bb@news.teranews.com>, UFO Coverup
Team says...

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:11:55 GMT, Sir Arthur C.B.E. Wholeflaffers
A.S.A. <nospam@newsranger.com> wrote:

In article <bnrfa8$1i11$1@pencil.math.missouri.edu>, President, USA Exile Govt.
says...

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BUSH GRANTS IMMUNITY TO CORPORATE OIL LOOTERS IN IRAQ

RICK KELLY, WORLD SOCIALIST -  An extraordinary Presidential Executive 
Order, signed into law by President Bush on May 22 but kept out of the 
pages of the US media, further underscores the real motivations behind 
the illegal US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Ostensibly drawn up in order to protect Iraq's oil wealth, Executive 
Order 13303, "Protecting the Development Fund for Iraq and Certain Other 
Property in Which Iraq Has an Interest," provides unlimited authority 
for US corporations to loot Iraqi oil and grants them permanent immunity 
from any legal actions over the consequences.

EO 13303 begins with a declaration that the possibility of future legal 
claims on Iraq's oil wealth constitutes "an unusual and extraordinary 
threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United 
States." It goes on to state that "any ... judicial process is 
prohibited, and shall be deemed null and void" with regard to the 
Development Fund for Iraq, as well as for any commercial operation 
conducted by US corporations involved in the Iraqi oil industry.

Section 1(b) of the EO eliminates all judicial process for "all Iraqi 
petroleum and petroleum products, and interests therein, and proceeds, 
obligations or any financial instruments of any nature whatsoever 
arising from or related to the sale or marketing thereof, and interests 
therein, in which any foreign country or a national thereof has any 
interest, that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the 
United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or 
control of United States persons."

Condemning it as a "blank check for corporate anarchy", Tom Devine, 
legal director for the non-profit legal firm, the Government 
Accountability Project, issued a damning assessment of Bush's EO on July 
18. "In terms of legal liability," Divine's report began, "the Executive 
Order cancels the concept of corporate accountability and abandons the 
rule of law."