The Oil Law and other benchmarks

Before you get started here, I highly recommend this backgrounder by Lionel Beehner, Staff Writer for the Council on Foreign Relations. Its all very confusing. Why are we trying to dictate what Iraq does with their national resources? I cant wrap my head around why our government thinks they have any say in what Iraq does with their oil. Passing a bill in congress that dictates what Iraq must do might sound good to Americans - then if it fails, its the Iraqis fault - but this seems to be terrib....

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