[Peace-discuss] FW: [dekalbinterfaithnetwork] Real Reason for Iraq War

[Gabriel Stanton]

>From: Citizen117 at aol.com
>Reply-To: dekalbinterfaithnetwork at yahoogroups.com
>To: Citizen117 at aol.com
>Subject: [dekalbinterfaithnetwork] Real Reason for Iraq War
>Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:10:21 EST
>
>Bush Didn't Bungle Iraq, You Fools
>THE MISSION WAS INDEED  ACCCOMPLISHED
>by Greg Palast
>for The Guardian
>
>20 March 2006
>
>Get off it. All the carping, belly-aching and complaining about George
>Bush's incompetence in Iraq, from both the Left and now the Right, is just 
>dead
>wrong.
>
>On the third anniversary of the tanks rolling over Iraq's border,  most of
>the 59 million Homer Simpsons who voted for Bush are beginning to doubt  if 
>his
>mission was accomplished.
>
>But don't kid yourself -- Bush and his  co-conspirator, Dick Cheney,
>accomplished exactly what they set out to do. In  case you've forgotten 
>what their
>real mission was, let me remind you of White  House spokesman Ari 
>Fleisher's
>original announcement, three years ago, launching  of what he called,
>
>"Operation
>Iraqi
>Liberation."
>
>O.I.L. How droll of them, how cute. Then,  Karl Rove made the giggling boys
>in the White House change it to "OIF" --  Operation Iraqi Freedom. But the
>101st Airborne wasn't sent to Basra to get its  hands on Iraq's OIF.
>
>"It's about oil," Robert Ebel told me. Who is Ebel?  Formerly the CIA's top
>oil analyst, he was sent by the Pentagon, about a month  before the 
>invasion,
>to a secret confab in London with Saddam's former oil  minister to finalize 
>the
>plans for "liberating" Iraq's oil industry. In London,  Bush's emissary 
>Ebel
>also instructed Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum, the man the Pentagon  would choose as
>post-OIF oil minister for Iraq, on the correct method of  disposing Iraq's
>crude.
>
>And what did the USA want Iraq to do with Iraq's  oil? The answer will
>surprise many of you: and it is uglier, more twisted,  devilish and devious 
>than
>anything imagined by the most conspiracy-addicted  blogger. The answer can 
>be
>found in a 323-page plan for Iraq's oil secretly  drafted by the State
>Department. Our team got a hold of a copy; how, doesn't  matter. The key 
>thing is what's
>inside this thick Bush diktat: a directive to  Iraqis to maintain a state 
>oil
>company that will "enhance its relationship with  OPEC."
>
>Enhance its relationship with OPEC??? How strange: the government  of the
>United States ordering Iraq to support the very OPEC oil cartel which is
>strangling our nation with outrageously high prices for crude.
>
>Specifically, the system ordered up by the Bush cabal would keep a lid  on
>Iraq's oil production -- limiting Iraq's oil pumping to the tight quota set 
>  by
>Saudi Arabia and the OPEC cartel.
>
>There you have it. Yes, Bush went  in for the oil -- not to get MORE of
>Iraq's oil, but to prevent Iraq producing  TOO MUCH of it.
>
>You must keep in mind who paid for George's ranch and  Dick's bunker: Big
>Oil. And Big Oil -- and their buck-buddies, the Saudis --  don't make money 
>from
>pumping more oil, but from pumping LESS of it. The lower  the supply, the
>higher the price.
>
>It's Economics 101. The oil industry  is run by a cartel, OPEC, and what
>economists call an "oligopoly" -- a tiny  handful of operators who make 
>more money
>when there's less oil, not more of it.  So, every time the "insurgents" 
>blow
>up a pipeline in Basra, every time Mad  Mahmoud in Tehran threatens to cut
>supply, the price of oil leaps. And Dick and  George just LOVE it.
>
>Dick and George didn't want more oil from Iraq,  they wanted less. I know
>some of you, no matter what I write, insist that our  President and his 
>Veep are
>on the hunt for more crude so you can cheaply fill  your family Hummer; 
>that
>somehow, these two oil-patch babies are concerned that  the price of gas in 
>the
>USA is bumping up to $3 a gallon.
>
>No so, gentle  souls. Three bucks a gallon in the States (and a quid a 
>litre
>in Britain) means  colossal profits for Big Oil, and that makes Dick's 
>ticker
>go pitty-pat with  joy. The top oily-gopolists, the five largest oil
>companies, pulled in $113  billion in profit in 2005 -- compared to a 
>piddly $34
>billion in 2002 before  Operation Iraqi Liberation. In other words, it's 
>been a good
>war for Big Oil.
>
>As per Plan Bush, Bahr Al-Ulum became Iraq's occupation oil minister;  the
>conquered nation "enhanced its relationship with OPEC;" and the price of  
>oil,
>from Clinton peace-time to Bush war-time, shot up 317%.
>
>In other  words, on the third anniversary of invasion, we can say the 
>attack
>and  occupation is, indeed, a Mission Accomplished. However, it wasn't
>America's  mission, nor the Iraqis'. It was an Mission Accomplished for 
>OPEC and Big
>Oil.
>
>**********
>On June 6, Penguin Dutton will release GREG PALAST'S NEW  BOOK, "ARMED
>MADHOUSE:  DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES OF THE CLASS  WAR."  Order it 
>today --
>and view his investigative reports for Harper's  Magazine and BBC 
>television's
>Newsnight -- at www.GregPalast.com.
>
>Palast returns to the pages of the Guardian today with this column.  Catch
>his commentaries weekly.
>**********
>
>
>
>
>
>Luke
>~ ~  ~
>Halliburton awarded contract to build detention centers in U.S.! For "an
>unexpected influx of immigrants, to house people in the event of a natural
>disaster or for new programs that require additional detention space." NEW
>PROGRAMS?!
>_http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=%20SC20060206
>&articleId=1897_
>(http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=%20SC20060206&articleId=1897)
>_http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2006/02/bushworld-4.html_
>(http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2006/02/bushworld-4.html)
>
>The  Pentagon has been collecting information on peaceful activists and
>monitoring  anti-war and anti-military recruiting protests throughout the 
>U.S.
>_http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spying/24009prs20060201.html_
>(http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spying/24009prs20060201.html)
>
>Colonel  Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff "My participation. 
>.
>.  constitutes the lowest point in my professional life. I participated in 
>a
>hoax  on the American people, the international community and the United
>Nations  Security Council."
>_http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Powells_former_chief_of_staff_on_0205.html_
>(http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Powells_former_chief_of_staff_on_0205.html)
>
>_http://www.tompaine.com_ (http://www.tompaine.com/)
>_http://www.motherjones.com_ (http://www.motherjones.com/)
>_http://www.truthout.org_ (http://www.truthout.org/)
>_http://www.guardian.co.uk_ (http://www.guardian.co.uk/)
>_http://www.copvcia.com_ (http://www.copvcia.com/)
>_http://www.aclu.org_ (http://www.aclu.org/)