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ENI, Cepsa and Repsol had received one million barrels of Kirkuk each, with Tupras winning the remaining 2.5 million barrels, oil market sources in Europe said. Spain, Italy and Turkey are natural short-haul importers of Iraq's Kirkuk crude, which is exported from Iraq by pipeline to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan...

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US puts 1.14-billion-dollar price on restoring Iraqi oil
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       Rancor mounts over Iraq contract - San Francisco Chronicle

CORRECTED - Global firms grumble at pace of Iraq business deals
Forbes - Aug 5, 2003
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major pre-war contracts in Iraq's oil ...

Firms unhappy with pace of Iraq deals
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Far from home, defusing conflict
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oil ... be repaired by Kellogg Brown & Root ... a unit of Halliburton. ...

Plutocrats Gushing
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Pipe dreams of Iraqi oil
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The Other Looting
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Cost of restoring Iraq oil production $1.6 bln
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Thanks for the M.R.E.'s

By PAUL KRUGMAN, NY Times -August 12, 2003

A few days ago I talked to a soldier just back from Iraq. He'd been in a relatively calm area; his main complaint was about food. Four months after the fall of Baghdad, his unit was still eating the dreaded M.R.E.'s: meals ready to eat. When Italian troops moved into the area, their food was "way more realistic" — and American troops were soon trading whatever they could for some of that Italian food.

Other stories are far worse. Letters published in Stars and Stripes and e-mail published on the Web site of Col. David Hackworth (a decorated veteran and Pentagon critic) describe shortages of water. One writer reported that in his unit, "each soldier is limited to two 1.5-liter bottles a day," and that inadequate water rations were leading to "heat casualties." An American soldier died of heat stroke on Saturday; are poor supply and living conditions one reason why U.S. troops in Iraq are suffering such a high rate of noncombat deaths?

The U.S. military has always had superb logistics. What happened? The answer is a mix of penny-pinching and privatization — which makes our soldiers' discomfort a symptom of something more general.

Colonel Hackworth blames "dilettantes in the Pentagon" who "thought they could run a war and an occupation on the cheap." But the cheapness isn't restricted to Iraq. In general, the "support our troops" crowd draws the line when that support might actually cost something.

The usually conservative Army Times has run blistering editorials on this subject. Its June 30 blast, titled "Nothing but Lip Service," begins: "In recent months, President Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress have missed no opportunity to heap richly deserved praise on the military. But talk is cheap — and getting cheaper by the day, judging from the nickel-and-dime treatment the troops are getting lately." The article goes on to detail a series of promises broken and benefits cut.

Military corner-cutting is part of a broader picture of penny-wise-pound-foolish government. When it comes to tax cuts or subsidies to powerful interest groups, money is no object. But elsewhere, including homeland security, small-government ideology reigns. The Bush administration has been unwilling to spend enough on any aspect of homeland security, whether it's providing firefighters and police officers with radios or protecting the nation's ports. The decision to pull air marshals off some flights to save on hotel bills — reversed when the public heard about it — was simply a sound-bite-worthy example. (Air marshals have told MSNBC.com that a "witch hunt" is now under way at the Transportation Security Administration, and that those who reveal cost-cutting measures to the media are being threatened with the Patriot Act.)

There's also another element in the Iraq logistical snafu: privatization. The U.S. military has shifted many tasks traditionally performed by soldiers into the hands of such private contractors as Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary. The Iraq war and its aftermath gave this privatized system its first major test in combat — and the system failed.

According to the Newhouse News Service, "U.S. troops in Iraq suffered through months of unnecessarily poor living conditions because some civilian contractors hired by the Army for logistics support failed to show up." Not surprisingly, civilian contractors — and their insurance companies — get spooked by war zones. The Financial Times reports that the dismal performance of contractors in Iraq has raised strong concerns about what would happen in a war against a serious opponent, like North Korea.

Military privatization, like military penny-pinching, is part of a pattern. Both for ideological reasons and, one suspects, because of the patronage involved, the people now running the country seem determined to have public services provided by private corporations, no matter what the circumstances. For example, you may recall that in the weeks after 9/11 the Bush administration and its Congressional allies fought tooth and nail to leave airport screening in the hands of private security companies, giving in only in the face of overwhelming public pressure. In Iraq, reports The Baltimore Sun, "the Bush administration continues to use American corporations to perform work that United Nations agencies and nonprofit aid groups can do more cheaply."

In short, the logistical mess in Iraq isn't an isolated case of poor planning and mismanagement: it's telling us what's wrong with our current philosophy of government.

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Sanchez: Troops in Iraq to Serve a Year

AP/NY Times -August 12, 2003

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- All troops in Iraq should expect to serve for at least a year, with brief rest breaks in the region and possibly a few days at home, the commander of U.S. forces said Tuesday. That came as news to some soldiers.

``It's a one-year rotation,'' Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez told The Associated Press in an interview. ``Every soldier has been told that they'll be deployed for a year, and then at the end of the year we'll be working to send them home.''

But some of the 148,000 soldiers in Iraq said nobody told them how long they would remain in the country, where guerrillas attack Americans daily and high temperatures often top 120 degrees.

Families, Vets Urge U.S. Troops Come Home

AP -Aug 13, 2003

WASHINGTON - Susan Schuman's son writes home from Iraq (news - web sites) complaining of poor living conditions, skimpy water rations and dozens of daily attacks on U.S. troops that go unreported.

The mother of a Massachusetts National Guardsman stationed in Iraq since March, Schuman has joined others — longtime pacifists, military veterans and parents with children on extended deployments — in a campaign to bring them home.

"Our soldiers are demoralized. They are fighting an illegal and unjustified war," Schuman said at a news conference Wednesday introducing the campaign, Bring Them Home Now.

They want the U.S. occupation in Iraq to end, even if they disagree on how to take care of the war-ravaged country.

"I want to bring them all home now and let the Iraqi people determine the future of Iraq," said Stan Goff of Raleigh, N.C., a military veteran whose son is serving in Iraq.

The campaign's name is a twist on President Bush (news - web sites)'s comment at a July news conference. Responding to attacks on U.S. forces, Bush taunted, "Bring 'em on."

The utterance was criticized as an encouragement for violence against American troops.

Set up as a resource for military members while sending a political message, the campaign was initiated by groups including Military Families Speak Out and Veterans for Peace. It unites the anti-war crowd with those increasingly disenchanted with the U.S. occupation.

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Local Soldier E-mails From Iraq, Asking For Help

POSTED: 5:00 p.m. PDT August 14, 2003

Liberty Forum

Chris Legeros - KIRO 7 Eyewitness News

Sweltering heat, a shortage of good food and water, and constant danger. Those are the complaints we're hearing from a local soldier stationed in Iraq who now questions why American troops are still there.

Private First Class Mary Yahne doesn't often get access to a phone in Iraq. But sometimes she does get her hands on a computer, and she's been firing off e-mails to us and to her family in Bonney Lake.

There's pride in a sign outside Treva Yahne's home and patriotism reflected with flags. But the Bonney Lake mother has had a change of heart over the past few months.

"I was [for the war] at the beginning," she said. "I support the troops, but like I said, I don't support the war, if that's what they call it."

Her daughter, Private First Class Mary Yahne is in Iraq, somewhere, hauling cargo for the Fourth Infantry Division and struggling to stay alive.

"They need help, they need help badly," Treva said.

Like other troops, Mary is sweltering in 120-degree heat, with no air conditioning, eating packaged meals for months and drinking only two bottles of water a day.

She's written us here at KIRO 7 Eyewitness News saying, "the military expects us to be happy out here. I'm very happy serving my country, but not when the government fails to take care of you."

"We volunteered our lives to be out here and we get treated worse that people in prison."

Private Yahne also writes, "There is no real reason for us to be out here!!!!, We're protecting the oil is all, and as far as the supposed war ending, it hasn't. Not when everyday soldiers are still getting mines placed in front of convoys. Rocket propelled grenades thrown at us."

"She just wishes it was all over. Like I said, they want to come home," said Treva.

Private Yahne is also begging for some help, asking Northwesterners to send soldiers supplies they don't have like, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, deodorant, and snack foods that aren't perishable.

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