Iraq: Email to Clinton: U.S. Pressured Iraq to Increase Oil Production “to Pay the Greatest Dividends”

Jul 8, 2016 | Ben Norton, Salon
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A 2011 email to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shows how the U.S. pressured Iraq’s new allied government to increase oil production in order “to pay the greatest dividends.” U.S. State Department officials stressed that “Iraq is potentially one of the largest oil producers in the world,” but lamented that it was not meeting its full potential.