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  1. mc mark

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    SECRET U.S. PLANS FOR IRAQ'S OIL
    BBC Newsnight
    Thursday, March 17, 2005

    By Greg Palast

    Reporting for BBC Newsnight


    Why was Paul Wolfowitz pushed out of the Pentagon onto the World Bank? The answer lies in a 323-page document, secret until now, indicating that the allies of Big Oil in the Bush Administration have defeated neo-conservatives and their chief Wolfowitz. Tonight BBC Television Newsnight will tell the true story of the fall of the neo-cons. An investigation conducted by BBC with Harper's magazine will also reveal that the US State Department made detailed plans for war in Iraq -- and for Iraq's oil -- within weeks of Bush's first inauguration in 2001.

    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.

    View Segments of Iraq oil plans
    http://www.gregpalast.com/opeconthemarch.html

    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.

    The sell-off was given the green light in a secret meeting in London headed by Ahmed Chalabi shortly after the US entered Baghdad, according to Robert Ebel. Mr. Ebel, a former Energy and CIA oil analyst, now a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, flew to the London meeting, he told Newsnight, at the request of the State Department.

    Mr Aljibury, once Ronald Reagan's "back-channel" to Saddam, claims that plans to sell off Iraq's oil, pushed by the US-installed Governing Council in 2003, helped instigate the insurgency and attacks on US and British occupying forces.

    "Insurgents used this, saying, 'Look, you're losing your country, your losing your resources to a bunch of wealthy billionaires who want to take you over and make your life miserable," said Mr Aljibury from his home near San Francisco.

    "We saw an increase in the bombing of oil facilities, pipelines, built on the premise that privatization is coming."

    Privatization blocked by industry

    Philip Carroll, the former CEO of Shell Oil USA who took control of Iraq's oil production for the US Government a month after the invasion, stalled the sell-off scheme.

    Mr Carroll told us he made it clear to Paul Bremer, the US occupation chief who arrived in Iraq in May 2003, that: "There was to be no privatization of Iraqi oil resources or facilities while I was involved."

    The chosen successor to Mr Carroll, a Conoco Oil executive, ordered up a new plan for a state oil company preferred by the industry.

    Ari Cohen, of the neo-conservative Heritage Foundation, told Newsnight that an opportunity had been missed to privatise Iraq's oil fields. He advocated the plan as a means to help the US defeat Opec, and said America should have gone ahead with what he called a "no-brainer" decision.

    Mr Carroll hit back, telling Newsnight, "I would agree with that statement. To privatize would be a no-brainer. It would only be thought about by someone with no brain."

    New plans, obtained from the State Department by Newsnight and Harper's Magazine under the US Freedom of Information Act, called for creation of a state-owned oil company favored by the US oil industry. It was completed in January 2004, Harper's discovered, under the guidance of Amy Jaffe of the James Baker Institute in Texas. Former US Secretary of State Baker is now an attorney. His law firm, Baker Botts, is representing ExxonMobil and the Saudi Arabian government.

    View segments of Iraq oil plans

    Questioned by Newsnight, Ms Jaffe said the oil industry prefers state control of Iraq's oil over a sell-off because it fears a repeat of Russia's energy privatization. In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, US oil companies were barred from bidding for the reserves.

    Jaffe said "There is no question that an American oil company ... would not be enthusiastic about a plan that would privatize all the assets with Iraq companies and they (US companies) might be left out of the transaction."

    In addition, Ms. Jaffe says US oil companies are not warm to any plan that would undermine Opec, "They [oil companies] have to worry about the price of oil."

    "I'm not sure that if I'm the chair of an American company, and you put me on a lie detector test, I would say high oil prices are bad for me or my company."

    The former Shell oil boss agrees. In Houston, he told Newsnight, "Many neo conservatives are people who have certain ideological beliefs about markets, about democracy, about this that and the other. International oil companies without exception are very pragmatic commercial organizations. They don't have a theology."

    http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=417&row=0
     
  2. gifford1967

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    No no, it's about democracy.
     
  3. rhester

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    The war in Iraq is about oil.
    The invasion of Afganistan was about drugs.

    That can be proven.

    I love our soldiers. I hate that they are being used as mercinaries at the bidding of the global oil, banking and drug cartels.

    Iran is on the hit list.
    Venzuala and many African nations are targets.

    The Global oil, banking and drug cartel have a powerful enforcement operation- U.S. Military might and the CIA.

    When the Taliban almost destroyed to zero the opium business it didn't take the CIA long to react and the U.S. was spot on to get the Taliban out of the way. Now within weeks of our military operations the CIA was able to get the opium business up and going with a 300% immediate increase in production and now Afaganistan is the leading producer in the world.

    Herion flooded into Iraq for the first time as soon as the US invasion secured Bagdad.

    Without the cash flow of the drug cartel Wall Street would be in deep doo-doo. That cash is critical to the cartel. They cannot operate without it. If you want to know the difference between Wall Street and the CIA, start tracing where CIA directors and depity directors operate. They just shift back and forth between running the CIA and running the big Wall Street financial players.

    Please investigate this for yourself.

    CIA= Wall Street
     
  4. bigtexxx

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    This is probably the worst post I've ever read. glynch would be thrilled, though.

    Please substantiate ANY of this. Your reputation is on the line.
     
  5. JuanValdez

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    I have no trouble believing the Iraq war was waged to win a chip against OPEC. But saying our fight in Afghanistan was waged to increase the production of opium is crazy. That opium production went up after the war isn't enough evidence -- illegal activities will increase when lawlessness increases and regime change definitely creates a pocket of lawlessness.
     
  6. SWTsig

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    prove it, pal. cause as of now, it seems like you completely pulled that out of your ass.

    the Iraq/oil connection is quite obvious on the other hand.
     
  7. robbie380

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    yes we all know the publicly traded companies on the NYSE are funded by drug money from afghanistan
     
  8. FranchiseBlade

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    There was a thread a while back that had CIA or FBI agents speaking about the U.S. selling drugs. It doesn't mention that the war in Afghanistan was about that.
     
  9. rhester

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    If you guys will give me til Monday when I am back at work and able to post I will get busy.

    What I will use is documentation that is verifiable but will require you to think. Thank you for reading the post, I hate extreme stuff- that is apparantly wacko out in space and for that reason I thought about the work it would take to go back and pull up
    "the Dots". I will do my best because I posted with hopes of having this interest and opportunity.

    All I will ask is that you check out the research and connect the dots:

    I will document how Wall Street financiers move to high CIA positions and visa versa. Give an overview of how drug money is laundered. How that cash ends up benefiting the U.S. Why Wall Street (the financial sector) must be involved and give a brief overview of the CIA's control of drugs going back to the nightmare of Oliver North and the Contra smuggling scandal. We will look at the Clinton Scandal of smuggling through Mena, Arkansas, CIA involvement and then come quickly up to date with our ties to the Taliban during the Russian/Afghan war and our falling ot over their shut down of the drug industry in 2000.-("9. Although generally welcomed, the abrupt implementation of the Taliban ban on cultivation of opium poppy has removed the country's most remunerative cash crop, which has caused a major income loss both to direct cultivators, and perhaps more significantly to the migrant agricultural labourers who previously travelled to South-West and South-East Afghanistan to perform labour-intensive work on the opium crop. An estimated 480,000 workers have been deprived of earnings from poppy, and the farm-gate income foregone is estimated to be in the region of $100 million. Urgent action is required by the international community to support the rehabilitation and crop substitution efforts of the United Nations in those areas. " This is a quote from the United Nations General Assembly Dec. 2001)
    Immediately after we invaded Afganistan known drug Lords were put back in tribla authority and the lastest figures at the U. N. state- Documentation on the way, Monday.

    We'll look at the Pax Americana blueprint for the invasion of Iraq. Documented strategies for Iran and Saudi Arabia, Peak Oil and the whole chess game to control rapidly dwindling oil reserves.

    As oil goes so goes the world.

    I'll give you what you want , now you start paying attention to the headlines. It is all going as planned.

    You can be sure of one thing- history is not accidental.

    If something major happens it was part of an intelligent process.

    Those who print the money control the world.
     
  10. rhester

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    Oh yeah forgot to mention that prior to the Taliban opium ban I will show that the Taliban and CIA worked hard together, they are allied. And now that the drug Lords are going strong again Afganistan is the world leading exporter of opium once again. (They held the record in 1999 of about 400 tonnes annually- today we are breaking the record and may top 2000 tons)
     
  11. bnb

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    why do i get the feeling rhester is typing this from a fortified bunker under his parents house?

    Nice derailment, by the way... that oil connection was pretty far fetched.
     
  12. rhester

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    No bunker guy here.
    I'm a big Rocket fan. A manager at a company in Houston and I pastor a small church. I was a pastor at a large church prior to going back into the workforce.

    I have 6 great children, and have been happily married 30.5 yrs.

    We are Christian, basic average type middle class. We don't own any guns except the old 410 I use to kill snakes and the .22 my sons don't use cause they don't like to 'hunt'.

    I am pretty basic bible, don't consider myself the far right, I am not very political though I vote republican.

    No survivalist, patriot, militia mentality. I go more for evangelism and being a good husband and father. My favorite book is the Bible and I like Ray Comfort. Haven't scored up for Armageddon and don't aspire to the wacko militia survivalist stuff at all.

    I do love truth, to a fault. I realize I am not the source of it and don't pretend that my opinions are THE truth.

    But I love truth and to a fault I hate deception. So when politicians say one thing and do another or the government no longer even knows how the constitution reads or I read something that challenges the spin of the media or else I take note.

    I like to hear all views. You can always learn.

    I do have a great desire to not be deceived about things. I love the movie the Matrix because it is easy to be deceived and that is the first premise of the movie.

    I hate deception.

    Now - as I have been challenged- primarily by reading a book by chance called Crossing the Rubicon. I had to either go after the documentation in this book or blow it off. I chose to go after it.

    I have been reading, studying and researching now for 7 months.

    I have stacks of research- best documentation I could find. It became a hobby for me. It was fun. But what I found was deadly serious.

    About 50% of what I have piled in my study that I was digging through is gargage. Pure sensationism conspiracy theory propaganda garbage.
    But now that other 50% is credible, legitimate and shocking.

    If anyone wants to wade through garbage and truth until the truth is clean off and checked out and stands out like a lighthouse. You can go to work and find out alot of interesting things.

    Start with well documented books. Warning - the internet has some good references but much is not easily documented and verifiable.

    What I mean is go to offical records that are public documents and find out what is going wrong here.

    I will continue to be just an ordinary Rocket fan, father husband and pastor, I'm not crying out the sky is falling the antichrist is so and so, or any such thing. But I get great personal satisfaction knowing I am not duped by the global bank cartel or their cronies.

    My Congressman is Ron Paul. He is the only conservative in congress I trust. I know him personally. He is a Dr. (gyno) he delivered my third son and he loves America and is a strict constitutionalist. Go to his website and search his articles over the past few years. Read them. I have had many discussion with him to understand how our Government works today, why we are pushing for globalism and socialism in America. He has a wealth of knowledge and has backed up for me most of the research and conclusions I have drawn.

    First dot will come Monday, sorry I type to fast, have to get home.
     
  13. pippendagimp

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    Looking forward to seeing your research and documentation, rhester. In particular, I am interested in learning what your research has yielded in terms of who exactly controls the money supply (I'm wondering if the answer will be a well-known banking family whose name begins with R).
     
  14. Rocket River

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    In 10 years we will see the results
    How many RICH Iraqi's will there be on the ground floor
    and Look to see if they are in with the Admin

    Will the Average Iraqi live like the Average Kuwaiti
    or
    the Average pick ya random african nation

    Rocket River
     
  15. rhester

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    Sorry, I post from work and this week I have to work.

    Where do you start with piles of books, articles and interviews?
    I don't think I have time but I will post as I can. Let the name calling begin, this could take a long time to establish credibly.

    I did read over some things over the weekend.

    Starting with drugs- CIA has a long history of involvement, I really don't think drugs could be a problem in the world without the CIA support. CIA is too strong.

    Remember the Contra scandal with drug smuggling and CIA inspector general Frederick Hitz poor attempt to defend the agency? Read Congresswoman Maxine Water's testimony in congress and then read this recap by reporter Robert Parry.

    It is just one small dot. But getting started you need to go back and look at the Contra scandal because it is so obvious that the CIA was smuggling drugs from Central America.

    http://www.house.gov/waters/31698pr.htm

    Mr. Parry's article compliments Congresswoman Water's remarks in congress. There are a couple very good research works on the Contra Scandal. All in all if you are old enough you will remember the hearings and the scandal over the CIA and drug smuggling.

    This gets us started into understanding the importance of controlling the #1 producer of opium in the world- Afghanistan.

    Mr. Parry's article- http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/CIADrugConfession.html

    I think I'll give up and surrender- have about 500 or so dots to connect just on drugs including all the federal investigations and testimony.

    Next time I can post I will share some stuff just on Afghanistan

    Here is a tidbit- "Dec. 2001 US and Pakistan broker deal to release opium drug lord Ayub Afridi from prison. Afridi is important because he is able to rally other drug lords- Commanders such as Haji Abdul Qadeer, Haji Mohammed Zaman and Hazrat Ali, in an effort to assist the U.S. operations." (Asia News, Dec. 2001)

    BTW, Afridi worked with the CIA in the resistance against Russia in the war in Afghanistan up until 1989.

    So much to do, this is too big for a forum and will take so long.

    I will try to send out info on articles, testimony, books and links if I can find time and if anyone is interested.
     
  16. Svpernaut

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    Yeah, the Iraq war was ALL about oil... that's why gas prices jumped 35 cents last night. Thank god we're raping their oil...
     
  17. FranchiseBlade

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    If it was about all, it wasn't about making gas prices cheaper. It was about making money for the oil companies. So the fact that gasoline prices are high, has little to do with whether the war was about oil or not.
     

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