December 23, 2008
The Facts
The State Department under the Bush administration has dismissed all law suits against Libya for state sponsored terrorism in favor of restoring relations with Libya. This action nullifies the suit by 44 relatives for $6 billion; a law suit that found Libya responsible for the deaths by US District Judge Henry Kennedy. By doing this, the State Department is virtually saying they don’t care what a US judge found. Families of the law suit are outraged at Bush and the State Department.
My View
Libya’s oil production reached 1.76 million barrels per day in 2007. That number is expected to rise to 2.2 million per day by 2012. Much too much oil to be ignored by America’s oil companies and an administration partly controlled by them. Major oil companies around the world are vying for a piece of the action in Libya including Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, and ConocoPhillips, some which have been there since 2004.
The Bush-Cheney administration has proven time and again there is nothing they won’t do for these oil companies. Hell, they even went to war on their behalf. Bush loves saying his actions has prevented more terrorist attacks on the US, but this recent move just says “if we (the terrorist nations) have plenty of oil, we can just blackmail Bush into forgiveness”. Also by doing this, Bush is once again spitting in the eye of our legal system and our laws. But that’s nothing new to Bush & Cheney; they’ve been doing that for 7 years and 11 months now.
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