U.S. adviser to Kurds criticized

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http://www.upi.com/Business_News/200...5051258032038/
OSLO, Norway, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- A former Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations expressed shock that a U.S. consultant to the Kurds may earn more than $100 million from an Iraqi oil deal.

Peter Galbraith, a former U.S. ambassador to Croatia, who advocated on behalf of Kurds in northern Iraq during the country's constitutional negotiations in 2005, had previously, in 2004, signed a deal with a Norwegian oil company, DNO, that gave him rights to a small portion of income from new oil discoveries in Kurdistan, The New York Times reported Thursday. Former U.N. ambassador Feisal Amin al-Istrabadi said he was "speechless," that "an oil company was participating in the drafting of the Iraqi Constitution."

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What does this mean? Is this part of the good feeling?

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It's interesting that he is aligned with John Kerry and Joe Biden.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/wo...er=rss&emc=rss

There's a quote in the article stating that Biden did not favor partitioning Iraq. Do they think we have no memory at all?

[Morethanready]

And how is this for hypocrisy? From John Kerry's old campaign page:

Jul 25, 2008 - 10:23 AM
State Department Inspector to Investigate Texas Oil Company's Deal in Kurdistan
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
Published: July 25, 2008

BAGHDAD - The State Department's internal watchdog division will investigate allegations that department officials did nothing to prevent a Texas oil company with close ties to President Bush from concluding an oil deal with the Kurdistan regional government that undermined both American policy and the Iraqi central government.

The Kurds' deal last year with Hunt Oil Company of Dallas - and similar contracts between the Kurds and other energy companies - have infuriated the Iraqi government, which has called them "illegal" attempts to usurp Baghdad's authority.

http://www.johnkerry.com/news/entry/...eal_in_kurdis/