[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [SRRTAC-L:9059] Official now: US oil at the heart of Iraq crisis (fwd)

[Alfred Kagan]

>Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 22:12:44 -0500 (CDT)
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>Subject: [SRRTAC-L:9059] Official now: US oil at the heart of Iraq 
>crisis (fwd)
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>The document referred to in this article can be found at the link at the
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>Subject: [iac-disc.] Official now: US oil at the heart of Iraq crisis
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>http://www.sundayherald.com/28285
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>Sunday Herald [Scotland]
>Oct 05, 2002
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>Official: US oil at the heart of Iraq crisis
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>By Neil Mackay
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>President Bush's Cabinet agreed in April 2001 that 'Iraq remains a
>destabilising influence to the flow of oil to international markets from
>the Middle East' and because this is an unacceptable risk to the US
>'military intervention' is necessary.
>Vice-president Dick Cheney, who chairs the White House Energy Policy
>Development Group, commissioned a report on 'energy security' from the
>Baker Institute for Public Policy, a think-tank set up by James Baker, the
>former US secretary of state under George Bush Snr.
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>The report, Strategic Energy Policy Challenges For The 21st Century,
>concludes: 'The United States remains a prisoner of its energy dilemma.
>Iraq remains a de- stabilising influence to ... the flow of oil to
>international markets from the Middle East. Saddam Hussein has also
>demonstrated a willingness to threaten to use the oil weapon and to use his
>own export programme to manipulate oil markets. Therefore the US should
>conduct an immediate policy review toward Iraq including military, energy,
>economic and political/ diplomatic assessments.
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>'The United States should then develop an integrated strategy with key
>allies in Europe and Asia, and with key countries in the Middle East, to
>restate goals with respect to Iraqi policy and to restore a cohesive
>coalition of key allies.'
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>Baker who delivered the recommendations to Cheney, the former chief
>executive of Texas oil firm Halliburton, was advised by Kenneth Lay, the
>disgraced former chief executive of Enron, the US energy giant which went
>bankrupt after carrying out massive accountancy fraud.
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>The other advisers to Baker were: Luis Giusti, a Shell non-executive
>director; John Manzoni, regional president of BP and David O'Reilly, chief
>executive of ChevronTexaco. Another name linked to the document is Sheikh
>Saud Al Nasser Al Sabah, the former Kuwaiti oil minister and a fellow of
>the Baker Institute.
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>President Bush also has strong connections to the US oil industry and once
>owned the oil company Spectrum 7.
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>The Baker report highlights massive shortages in world oil supplies which
>now leave the US facing 'unprecedented energy price volatility' and has led
>to recurring electricity black-outs in areas such as California.
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>The report refers to the impact of fuel shortages on voters. It recommends
>a 'new and viable US energy policy central to America's domestic economy
>and to [the] nation's security and foreign policy'.
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>Iraq, the report says, 'turns its taps on and off when it has felt such
>action was in its strategic interest to do so', adding that there is a
>'possibility that Saddam Hussein may remove Iraqi oil from the market for
>an extended period of time' in order to damage prices.
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>The report also says that Cheney should integrate energy and security to
>stop 'manipulations of markets by any state', and suggests that Cheney's
>Energy Policy Group includes 'representation from the Department of
>Defence'.
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>'Unless the United States assumes a leadership role in the formation of new
>rules of the game,' the report says, 'US firms, US consumers and the US
>government [will be left] in a weaker position.'
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>www.rice.edu/projects/baker/
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