{"id":2269,"date":"2007-09-24T10:50:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T16:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/iraq-is-good-business-for-friends-of-duhbya\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T10:50:14","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T16:50:14","slug":"iraq-is-good-business-for-friends-of-duhbya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/iraq-is-good-business-for-friends-of-duhbya\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Is Good Business for Friends of Duhbya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/09\/23\/AR2007092300778.html?wpisrc=newsletter\">Michael A. Fletcher &#8211; Iraq Oil Deal Gets Everybody&#8217;s Attention &#8211; washingtonpost.com<\/a>  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By Michael A. Fletcher<br \/>Monday, September 24, 2007; Page A17<\/p>\n<p>The oil deal signed between Hunt Oil and the government in Iraq&#8217;s Kurdish region earlier this month has raised eyebrows, in no small part because it appears to undercut President Bush&#8217;s hope that Iraq could draft national legislation to share revenue from the country&#8217;s vast oil reserves. Making the deal more curious is that it was crafted by one of the administration&#8217;s staunchest supporters, Ray Hunt.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt, chief executive of the Dallas-based company, has been a major fundraiser and contributor to Bush&#8217;s presidential campaigns. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">He also serves on the president&#8217;s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, putting him close to the latest information developed by the nation&#8217;s intelligence agencies. <\/span>[mjh: Why the hell is an oil man and Bush buddy on the FIAB, except for his own profit?]<\/p>\n<p>If Hunt is signing regional oil deals in Iraq, critics ask, what does<br \/>\nhe know about the prospects for a long-stalled national oil law that<br \/>\nothers don&#8217;t?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael A. Fletcher &#8211; Iraq Oil Deal Gets Everybody&#8217;s Attention &#8211; washingtonpost.com By Michael A. FletcherMonday, September 24, 2007; Page A17 The oil deal signed between Hunt Oil and the government in Iraq&#8217;s Kurdish region earlier this month has raised eyebrows, in no small part because it appears to undercut President Bush&#8217;s hope that Iraq &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/iraq-is-good-business-for-friends-of-duhbya\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iraq Is Good Business for Friends of Duhbya<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}