Sunday, October 31, 2010
Globalist War Monger Goes For Vermont State Senate Seat
WASHINGTON — Peter Galbraith, a former US diplomat who is running for state Senate in Vermont, will receive millions of dollars from an oil company in Iraqi Kurdistan that breached a previously secret contract with him, an arbitration judge ruled yesterday.
The award is a windfall for Galbraith but could be a liability to his campaign.
Related: Occupation Iraq: The Founding Father of Modern Iraq
PROFITING from a WAR he HELPED START a LIABILITY in AmeriKa?!!
What a GREAT DEMOCRAT, huh?
The candidate said yesterday that when he receives the money, he plans to “reinvest the proceeds in alternate energy development both here in Vermont and in Kurdistan.’’
PFFFFFFFFFTT!
But the award could also resurrect questions about his financial dealings in Iraq, where he served as an adviser to Kurdish leaders. Galbraith, son of the late Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith, now lives in Townshend with his Norwegian wife. He came under fire last year when Dagens Naeringsliv, Norway’s largest business newspaper, disclosed his financial stake in a deal to develop Kurdish oil fields.
Yesterday’s announcement confirms that Galbraith played a crucial role in helping a Norwegian oil company, DNO, set up operations in the semi-autonomous Kurdish territory of Iraq in 2004. A year earlier, Kurdish leaders had paid Galbraith to help them negotiate with Iraq’s central government. He also helped draft provisions of Iraq’s constitution that gave Kurds control over newly discovered oil fields in their region. In 2005, he advised the Kurds informally on an unpaid basis.
Critics have said that Galbraith, who has written and spoken extensively on Iraq in the United States, should have publicly disclosed his financial stake in the Iraqi oil industry. In a telephone interview yesterday, he acknowledged it was a mistake to have not consistently disclosed his business interests while writing about Iraq. “I have apologized for that,’’ he said.
Yeah, so everything is all right now.
Never you mind the DESTRUCTION of a NATION and the MURDER of MILLIONS!
Just GO VOTE DEMOCRAT, liberal Vermonters!
But he maintains that Kurdish authorities were aware of his activities and that there was no conflict of interest.
Translation: He is NOT REALLY SORRY and DID NOT REALLY APOLOGIZE!
Ah, the ARROGANCE of ELITISM!
It is not clear how the money or the controversy over the oil deal will affect Galbraith’s political ambitions in Vermont.
Ever notice it is ALWAYS ABOUT THEM and NOT YOU when it comes to POLITICS, Americans?
“It’s a non-issue,’’ said Garrison Nelson, professor of political science at the University of Vermont. “I would say that less than 10 percent of Vermonters could find Kurdistan on the map.’’
Then I am TERRIBLY, TERRIBLY DISAPPOINTED in the allegedly leftist beacon and bastion whose border is just miles from here.
But Lynn Corum, a Republican running against Galbraith, sought to make a campaign issue of the award. “He talks about investments in wind and solar,’’ Corum said yesterday. “But he chose to invest his own money in oil.’’
Yeah, why i$ he running anyway? Just $omething to do?
A former US ambassador to Croatia and former deputy chief of the UN mission in Afghanistan, Galbraith is running as a Democrat for one of two open state Senate seats in Windham County, which leans heavily Democratic.
And they DO NOT KNOW WHO HE IS!
Galbraith has advocated closing Vermont Yankee, a nuclear power plant, in Windham and investing in solar and wind energy.
Now THAT I AGREE WITH!
See: Around New England: No Veracity in Vermont
You see, I LIVE DOWNSTREAM and I DO NOT LIKE the idea of CANCER in my WATER!
Yesterday Galbraith said that his involvement in developing Kurdish oil fields is not at odds with his political platform.
Do these guys just self-delude or is it always lies?
WTF, readers?
“There is no inconsistency between supporting alternative energy in Vermont and helping establish the Kurdistan oil industry,’’ he wrote in an e-mail. “We still need oil for the foreseeable future and, from an environmental perspective, it is far better to produce oil from a few hundred yards under the soil of Kurdistan than from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.’’
And he is a DEMOCRAT!
The LETTER by the NAME really DOES NOT MATTER MUCH does it, America?
Would you like your plate of political crap with cold-blue or red-hot frosting?
He said he has been asked about the Iraqi oil deal only once during the campaign, by a radio host.
WHERE, oh, WHERE are the NEWSPAPERS?
And they wonder why their industry is dying?
But yesterday’s announcement served as a reminder that much of Galbraith’s expertise lies far beyond the borders of Vermont. In a telephone interview from Norway, DNO communication director Tom Bratlie said the company initially partnered with Galbraith because of his extensive contacts in Iraq. “Peter Galbraith’s main role was that he knows the political situation in the region very well,’’ he said.
Ones he PROFITED FROM!
But don't vote Republican and repudiate a war-profiteering war-monger, Vermonters.
Galbraith, who developed connections with Kurdish leaders as a staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the 1980s, helped DNO hammer out an oil exploration agreement with Kurdish authorities and received a financial stake in exchange.
But subsequently, as Iraq’s central government fought to limit Kurdish control over the oil in Kurdish territory, DNO was forced to renegotiate its contact. Galbraith and another third party — a Yemeni company — were cut out, apparently because the central government in Baghdad would not approve the deal.
Galbraith and the Yemeni company, Ansan Wikfs Investments, asked for $144 million in compensation, Bratlie said....
It was unclear what total compensation Galbraith would receive.
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Also see: The Buying Off of Bernie Sanders
Some "socialist" you got there.
Illusion and imagery trump reality again.
