[lbo-talk] No oil for blood

Left-Wing Wacko leftwingwacko at gmail.com
Fri Jul 3 12:14:23 PDT 2009


Apologies for not following this thread and discussion closely. And yes I feel compelled to throw something into the mix, but more as a question than as an assertion Following up with the article posted by Estabrook, didn't Greg Palast uncovers some interesting info. on plans for Iraqi oil? And now maybe they just failed miserably?

http://www.gregpalast.com/secret-us-plans-for-iraqs-oil/ <http://www.gregpalast.com/secret-us-plans-for-iraqs-oil/>

The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq's oil before the 9/11 attacks sparking a policy battle between neo-cons and Big Oil, BBC's Newsnight has revealed.

Two years ago today - when President George Bush announced US, British and Allied forces would begin to bomb Baghdad - protestors claimed the US had a secret plan for Iraq's oil once Saddam had been conquered.

In fact there were two conflicting plans, setting off a hidden policy war between neo-conservatives at the Pentagon, on one side, versus a combination of "Big Oil" executives and US State Department "pragmatists."

"Big Oil" appears to have won. The latest plan, obtained by Newsnight from the US State Department was, we learned, drafted with the help of American oil industry consultants.

Insiders told Newsnight that planning began "within weeks" of Bush's first taking office in 2001, long before the September 11th attack on the US.

An Iraqi-born oil industry consultant, Falah Aljibury, says he took part in the secret meetings in California, Washington and the Middle East. He described a State Department plan for a forced coup d'etat.

Mr Aljibury himself told Newsnight that he interviewed potential successors to Saddam Hussein on behalf of the Bush administration.

*Secret sell-off plan*

The industry-favoured plan was pushed aside by yet another secret plan, drafted just before the invasion in 2003, which called for the sell-off of all of Iraq's oil fields. The new plan, crafted by neo-conservatives intent on using Iraq's oil to destroy the Opec cartel through massive increases in production above Opec quotas.

Rest at: http://www.gregpalast.com/secret-us-plans-for-iraqs-oil/

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