Mission Accomplished
Mar 20th, 2006 at 4:00 pm by Susie
Greg Palast says it was all about the oil - and keeping production down so OPEC could keep prices high:
“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.
And this is why we will go in and make a mess of Iran’s oil production, too.
In a world experiencing higher and higher prices for petroleum and its myriad products, the owners and operators in future will be the ones who had the sense to steal as much of the money and assets and commodities of the globalized economy as possible, in the years before it tanked.
These are critical years, these resource wars at the end of globalization.
If America can park our military permanently in the Middle East, we can deny it to other nations except on our terms and price. We can watch China, Japan, India, Europe and eventually even Russia decline and wither from lack of affordable oil.
And America will become a land of renters and day laborers.
Bush’s Two Percent Solution. The 2% of uber wealthy Americans will rule America as they please, and through America’s military they will rule the world.
So, if that was the motive, then the war has been a shamshing sucess, because the insurgents keep blowing up all the oil pipes. One question: Why couldn’t we have just done that ourselves from the air? We’re really good at that kind of stuff, why the whole war?
Why the whole war thing, if we could just blow up the oil pipes? Because the Neo-Cons love to kill and destroy.
It’s a vicious lie that 2% of the country rules America.
In reality, 0.2% rules America.