[lbo-talk] Iraq buys military hardware from Russia

[Carrol Cox]

No. International capital benefitted. It was NEVER "part of the plan" to
secure Iraq (oil, customers, etc) for the United States (as was the case in
the overthrow of Mossedegh).  Capital has become thoroughly international.
The U.S. is the primary enforcer for it.

Carrol


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
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> Behalf Of Doug Henwood
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 1:55 PM
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> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Iraq buys military hardware from Russia
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> 
> On Oct 9, 2012, at 2:46 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> > I'm so confused. I thought part of the point of the "liberation" was for
them to
> be a captive buyer of US hardware.
> 
> French, Chinese, and Russian companies got big gobs of their oil too. It's
just not
> working out as planned.
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