[Peace-discuss] Fwd: useful Iraq/Cheney info

[Alfred Kagan]

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>Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:01:58 -0600
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>From: Michael Weissman <mbw at uiuc.edu>
>Subject: useful Iraq/Cheney info
>
>Dear TFPJ'rs:
>
>Although 'blood for oil' is certainly not a 
>complete or maybe even primary explanation of 
>Bush's Iraq folly, the latest New Yorker had an 
>amazing smoking gun quote from the first month 
>of the Bush/Cheney administration, showing that 
>plans to seize Iraqi oil were very much on their 
>minds from the start.
>
>http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/
>
>excerpt:
>
>In Ron Suskind's recent book "The Price of 
>Loyalty," former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill 
>charges that Cheney agitated for U.S. 
>intervention well before the terrorist attacks 
>of September 11, 2001. Additional evidence that 
>Cheney played an early planning role is 
>contained in a previously undisclosed National 
>Security Council document, dated February 3, 
>2001. The top-secret document, written by a 
>high-level N.S.C. official, concerned Cheney's 
>newly formed Energy Task Force. It directed the 
>N.S.C. staff to coöperate fully with the Energy 
>Task Force as it considered the "melding" of two 
>seemingly unrelated areas of policy: "the review 
>of operational policies towards rogue states," 
>such as Iraq, and "actions regarding the capture 
>of new and existing oil and gas fields."
>
>
>Of course, we now worry about getting oil INTO 
>Iraq, but Halliburton's profits are good either 
>way.


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