Analysis: Time to withdraw Iraq oil law?

WASHINGTON – Iraq’s citizens suffer from the August heat, little electricity and fuel. Death is seemingly around every corner. So the time may not be right for an oil law, especially the one the Bush administration wants.

UPI has found a recurring theme over recent months during coverage of the Iraq oil law: creating a law governing the bloodline to Iraq’s economy should be less of a priority than stopping the bloodletting of Iraq’s citizens.

“There is no hurry whatsoever,” said Muhammad-Ali Zainy, senior energy economist and analyst at the London-based Center for Global Energy Studies. “Iraq really, now, is bleeding and losing its people in this horrible way and there is terrorism and all that and lack of the provisional basic services.

“Everything bad, there is in Iraq. Why should the government leave all these urgent needs to be addressed and then go to the hydrocarbon law?”

UPI