Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Rick Barton, codirector of the CSIS Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, appeared on CNN's Situation Room, "Oil, Iraq, and Stability."
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Rick Barton, codirector of the CSIS Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, appeared on CNN's Situation Room, "Oil, Iraq, and Stability."
BLITZER: The oil supply and demand, sending oil prices tumbling almost $5 today. China announced it's dropping oil subsidies because prices will increase 8 percent starting today. The increased demand for gas in China helped drive down the cost of crude to just under $132 a barrel.[...]
RICK BARTON, CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTL. STUDIES: It's really hard to get away from the feeling that our interest in oil was clearly one of our core strategic reasons for being in Iraq. And this doesn't help with diminishing that argument. Read the article
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