[Peace-discuss] sound familiar?

[Lisa Chason]

Yesterday's (Jan. 31) News Gazette carried a remarkable article, from the AP wire, on p. A-3. Headline: Iraq oil is a US priority. 
quote:
But government officials also believe the less said publicly about Iraq's oil, the better, lest they stoke criticism, already heard in much of the Arab world and Europe, that a war with Saddam is as much about oil as it is about terrorism. Similar concerns were heard during recent anti-war protests in Washington.
   "A heavy American hand will only convince (the Iraqis) and the rest of the world that the operation against Iraq was undertaken for imperialist, rather than disarmament reasons," warns Edward Djerejian, director of the James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. He co-aurthored a recent report -- with the Council on Foreign Relations -- on dealing with a post-Saddam Iraq.

Article goes on to describe how securing, expanding and controlling Iraq oil wells will be top priority following attack. 
Then almost at the end:

That many of these companies have close ties to top Bush administration officials -- including Vice President Dick Cheney, who once ran Hallibuton, and the president himself -- has further fueled speculation among some critics that an attack on Iraq is more about oil and imperialism than about weapons of mass destruction.
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