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October 22, 2009

Oil Tycoon: US “Entitled” to Iraqi Oil
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In other congressional testimony, the oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens told
lawmakers Wednesday the US is “entitled” to Iraqi oil because of the
human and financial toll of occupying Iraq. Addressing the Congressional
Natural Gas Caucus, Pickens criticized Iraqi plans to open up oil fields
to international bidding. Pickens said, “They’re opening them up to
other companies all over the world…We’re entitled to it…We even lost
5,000 of our people, 65,000 injured and a trillion, five hundred billion
dollars.”



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