BFEE Planned to Seize Saudi Oil in 1973!

[Octafish]

The BFEE has long known just how important the black gold was to the economy, national security, and their numbered Swiss bank accounts. So it only seems history repeats itself when it comes to the BFEE and what it wants. It's no joke, though. The Bush Organized Crime Family set up Hussein in 1991 (GOOGLE: "April Glaspie" and "Saddam") and who knows what else... 9-11? BTW: Nixon LOVED Poppy Bush and Sneering Dick Cheney, Big Time. — Octafish

Britain Says U.S. Planned to Seize Oil in '73 Crisis

By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
The New York Times
Published: January 2, 2004

LONDON, Jan. 1 — The United States government seriously contemplated using military force to seize oil fields in the Middle East during the Arab oil embargo 30 years ago, according to a declassified British government document made public on Thursday.

The top-secret document says that President Richard M. Nixon was prepared to act more aggressively than previously thought to secure America's oil supply if the embargo, imposed by Arab nations in retaliation for America's support for Israel in the 1973 Middle East war, did not end. In fact, the embargo was lifted in March 1974.

The declassified British memorandum said the United States considered launching airborne troops to seize oil fields in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi, but only as a "last resort."

President Nixon's defense secretary, James R. Schlesinger, delivered the warning to Lord Cromer, the British ambassador in Washington at the time. In the document, Lord Cromer was quoted as saying of Mr. Schlesinger, "it was no longer obvious to him that the United States could not use force."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/02/international/middleeast/02DOCU.html?ex=1073624400&en=4a24bb43fe6102f9&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

[aquart]

1. One significant difference:

Last resort as opposed to George's first choice.

Obviously someone in the Nixon administration was saner than anyone in the BushCo administration.

[Octafish]

2. Nixon was nuts. He wasn't stupid.

Unfortunately for us today, the Little Turd from Crawford is as crazy as any mass murderer AND he has an IQ hovering near room temperature. Good thing for the BFEE the real power is Sneering Dick Cheney.

Things were different in Nixon's day, though. The head of the crime gang was Tricky Dick himself. So, to do things the safe-right way, the BFEE decided to wait until the USSR bit the dust for their first Operation OIL GRAB. From the article:

The greatest threat would arise in Kuwait, the document said, "where the Iraqis, with Soviet backing, might be tempted to intervene."

Gee. Why kill people when you can spend money and get what you want? Oh yeah. The BFEE thinks people in the Third World are the "excess population" Dickens wrote about.

[plaguepuppy]

3. Nixon's revenge - the return of the pissed-off white guy

Sometimes I imagine Nixon's brain alive in a jar somewhere running things from behind the scenes and glorying in his bloody revenge. Sure are a lot of his former stooges in positions of great power again, familiar faces I never imagined I would have to look at again.

Sort of like Donovan's brain... who knows, maybe Wild Bill Donovan is in the next jar!

[Octafish]

4. Great visuals, plaguepuppy! Unfortunately, probable.

Donovan and Dulles went around Truman and got the NAZIs they coveted as clients, er, wanted to protect, er needed for national security — yeah, that's it — needed to fight the commies. Now, they've all come home to roost.

And these turd hatchlings never die. They just go into cryogenic hybernation. Then again, they don't really need to thaw Hitler with people they can transmute demonic souls into, like Smirkelgrüber.

Ironic that Nixon thought he was the only one who could do business with the Reds. Guess he never heard of Prescott Jr and the US-China Chamber of Commerce. They're the ones who pulled the plug on the Nixon brain's life-support and saline cleansing-solution system combo. Why split the loot 50-50 when the brain can't use it, anyway?



"Haig! What are you doing? Don't touch that power cord!"

[Octafish]

5. Kick to BFEE's oily backsides.

This is not old news.



Down with the BFEE.

[cliss]

6. I love the quote, "What's our oil doing under their sand?"

It kinda sums up the situation. Love the analogy, PPuppy.

It is weird, isn't it, to think that all these people, warmed-up leftovers from the Nixon & Reagan days, now re-heated and they are running things? Who could have guessed that these aging has-beens, who collected a federal paycheck for many decades, would now be responsible for the downfall of the US?