[jaakko]

(from ISML -mailing list)

Poland seeks Iraqi oil stake

Poland, which has sent troops to support the US-led forces in Iraq, has acknowledged its "ultimate objective" is to acquire supplies of Iraqi oil. The Polish Foreign Minister, Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, said his country had never disguised the fact that it sought direct access to the oilfields.

He was speaking as a group of Polish firms signed a deal with a subsidiary of US Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton. The US firm, Kellogg, Brown and Root, has already won million-dollar contracts to carry out reconstruction work in Iraq.

"We have never hidden our desire for Polish oil companies to finally have access to sources of commodities," Mr Cimoszewicz told the Polish PAP news agency.

Access to the oilfields "is our ultimate objective," he added.

Polish soldiers are to command one of the post-war administrative zones being set up to run Iraq. Poland firmly supported the United States during the Iraq war, and sent a small number of troops during the combat. About 250 Polish soldiers left for Kuwait on Wednesday to begin preparations for a multinational peacekeeping force in central Iraq.

Poland will take command of more than 9,000 troops from 15 nations -including 2,300 of its own - when the force is ready at the beginning of September. The sector under Polish command will be sandwiched between the US and British sectors.

It is the first time Poland has led such a large multinational peacekeeping force.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/w ... 043330.stm

[Tovarish Spetsnaz]

Nothing personal against the Polish people...but I do have a hatered for the Polish governemtn. Throughout its history as a capitalist state...it has always served as a reactionary warmonger state...serving the interests of the British or the German and now the American imperialists.

In 1920 it attacked the USSR and tried to invade the Ukraine.

In the 1930s it broke several peace negotiations which coul dhave averted WW2.

It threatened Latvia with war...and positioned its troops on its border ready to attack

It conspired with the Germans about conquering and dividing the Ukraine (according to the German foreing minister himself!)

It took part in the anexation of Czechoslovakia along with Germany...

And then in 1939 it procede to deport German people from its territories and only hastened its demise.

The Polish state has always served as a reactionary agent of imperialism..and now we see it again.

This shows with even more urgency...the need for the people of Poland and Eastern Europe to rise against the fascist agents of imperialism that are ruling their countries today

[Gothmog]

Nothing personal against the Polish people...but I do have a hatered for the Polish governemtn. Throughout its history as a capitalist state...it has always served as a reactionary warmonger state...serving the interests of the British or the German and now the American imperialists.

In 1920 it attacked the USSR and tried to invade the Ukraine.

In the 1930s it broke several peace negotiations which coul dhave averted WW2.

It threatened Latvia with war...and positioned its troops on its border ready to attack

It conspired with the Germans about conquering and dividing the Ukraine (according to the German foreing minister himself!)

It took part in the anexation of Czechoslovakia along with Germany...

And then in 1939 it procede to deport German people from its territories and only hastened its demise.

The Polish state has always served as a reactionary agent of imperialism..and now we see it again.

This shows with even more urgency...the need for the people of Poland and Eastern Europe to rise against the fascist agents of imperialism that are ruling their countries today

-I was just thinking about this when I read the news....it´s quite impressive the opportunistic behavior of sucessive Polish governments....not to mention their stupidity, since the majority of Polish agressions eventually backfired against the Polish nation.

[CasX]

Well that's very interesting. Unfortunately I can't say I'm surprised.

Check this out: http://www.politicsforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=347

DONALD Rumsfeld, the US Defence secretary, and his deputy Paul Wolfowitz wrote to President Bill Clinton in 1998 urging war against Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein because he is a 'hazard' to 'a significant portion of the world's supply of oil'.

[blackbeard]

Brown and Root , type that in your search engine and see what you can find .