On The Map with Avi Lewis: John Bolton (full interview)

The Iraq Oil Law... a little known document at the heart of the war. A law that would put the country's most valuable resource into the hands and wallets of foreign multinationals. Whether or not you believe it was the goal of the U.S. invasion in the first place, oil is key to Iraq's future. It's also key to U.S. plans for the country. Avi talks to John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, who defends the controversial law.
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[PhatPhing]

Please explain why US Oil execs gets to chair a made up "IRAQI Oil Council" and approve oil contracts to their own companies?!

When can we expect to see Iraqis or other nationals appointed to chair the Canadian National Energy Board or the US Department of Energy?

[influenza99]

Avi Lewis now works for Al Jezeera.

go figure.

[halflifeproductionz]

this avi lewis is awesome!!!

[angryscowl]

what an Emasculated Wuss....whos the biggest coward? Lewis or Jon Stewart?

[suzieq0452]

Bolton isn't use to being Interogated by a REAL JOURNALIST,these WAR CRIMNALS are only USE to the BAGLICKING LAPDOGS in the USA MSM. The bastard should be in Prison being Bush's BITCH.

[fudgingtonshitsworth]

Avi Lewis is a loathsome douchebag. His father, while sharing equally atrocious politics, is at least a nice guy

[Tsnore]

Avi actually managed to get a little sympathy out of me for Bolton The Terrible.

[bluesborn]

"If they don't want the oil companies in,let them try and pump it on their own."

Snide,and utterly disingenuous.

Like Iraqis ever had a choice.

[lucettelp]

My wager that a boy would have Michael as one of his names and a girl would have Michelle - named for his mother and her father.

[jshabadoo]

Noam Chomsky is a dbag.

[8Marx8]

Civil War!!!

According to a John Hopkins and Columbia University Medical team study,at least 60% of the 1.5 MILLION IRAQUES, who died in the war came as a result of direct fire by the US army.We need curagous journalists like Avi to stand up and question today's world of tyrany and dark power. Has nothing to do with socialism and everyting to do with stopping a super empire (US) from destructing the world and itself as a result. Read Hegemony or survival for Noam Chomsky.

[grantsinmypants2]

Saying the the Iraqis deserve one penny's worth of oil revenues is like saying that Jed Clampett was a shrew appraiser of real estate.