American retirees make Iraq safe for big oil

AP A view of Kirkuk in the year of 2007.

What do you do for an encore after a brilliant career in the military corps or American diplomat do? For some, the answer lies in the benefits of the oil boom in the Iraqi Kurdistan region.

Reese Erlich, Global Post reported that some senior members of the Bush-era wars in Iraq back in the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan. They rely on their old networks serve some foreign oil companies 50 or more jostling to achieve a share of the vast reserves of petroleum and natural gas in the region.

The big names in the industry including retired oil company Marine Corps Commandant General James L. Jones, now on the board of Chevron and the head of the US-Kurdistan Business Council. Former American Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad is a consultant of a Norwegian oil company. Retired Colonel Harry barge Jr. is a security consultant for the Kurdistan Regional Government.

According to Global Post, American expatriates are strong advocates of an independent and pro-American Kurdish state, to support the American oil investments. Not surprisingly, they also support the United States military intervention in the region increased.

The potential benefits are enormous, but so are the risks. The main Kirkuk pipeline was sabotaged by Islamic terrorists in March and has not worked since. In all cases, the Kurds Kirkuk controlled that since June, and Iraq is not according to the same region.

The region has its own oil reserves challenge to the central government of Iraq, with a share of the wealth. This week on the Iraqi government again is a complaint to a U in the USA court on the seizure of a consignment of Kurdish oil now on the coast of Texas.

Kurdish separatists have the mission of the United States to ex-dictator Saddam Hussein supported overthrow and the United States has helped to lead to and including the mission, the'm on the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

The Kurdish region of Iraq claimed independence or greater autonomy within its borders, a goal it has been since the 1920s, the political situation is, by the fact that the Kurds dominate a larger region, the limits in crosses complicated pursued modern Iran Syria and Turkey and Iraq.

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