China, Iraq Sign $3 billion Oil Deal

Finally.

We now know why we’ve lost over 4150 troops, suffered 10ks of thousands of grievously wounded, murdered a million Iraqis, created refugees out of millions more, destabilized the Middle East, squandered our remaining moral standing in the world, and saddled our children’s children’s children with trillions of dollars of crushing debt.

The neoconmen must be apoplectic.

Iraq Signs Oil Deal With China Worth Up to $3 Billion
By ERICA GOODE and RIYADH MOHAMMED, NY Times
August 29, 2008

BAGHDAD — In the first major oil deal Iraq has made with a foreign country since 2003, the Iraqi government and the China National Petroleum Corporation have signed a contract in Beijing that could be worth up to $3 billion, Iraqi officials said Thursday.
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