{"id":294,"date":"2007-02-26T21:53:13","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T21:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2017-06-06T02:49:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T08:49:54","slug":"iraq-labor-vs-exxonmobil-bp-and-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/iraq-labor-vs-exxonmobil-bp-and-shell\/","title":{"rendered":"A David and Goliath Story: Iraq Labor vs. ExxonMobil, BP and Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpEdNews February 21, 2007 by Kathlyn Stone<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/graphic_by_distresse_070221_49441.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/graphic_by_distresse_070221_4944.thumbnail1.jpg\" alt=\"graphic_by_distresse_070221_4944.jpg\" align= \"left\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nAccording to British media, the US and UK governments are on track to achieve a March victory in Iraq&#8230; Written by Bush and Blair&#8217;s big oil business partners who serve as the leaders&#8217; advisors on foreign policy, the new Iraq hydrocarbon law opens the door for international investors, led by BP, Exxon and Shell, to siphon off 75 percent of Iraq oil wealth for 30 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/opedne_kathlyn__070221_iraq_labor_vs__exxon.htm\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpEdNews February 21, 2007 by Kathlyn Stone According to British media, the US and UK governments are on track to achieve a March victory in Iraq&#8230; Written by Bush and Blair&#8217;s big oil business partners who serve as the leaders&#8217; advisors on foreign policy, the new Iraq hydrocarbon law opens the door for international investors,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-impeachment-related-oped"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A David and Goliath Story: Iraq Labor vs. ExxonMobil, BP and Shell &#8226; Impeach for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen&#039;s impeach strategy. 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