Bush went in for OIL not to get more but prevent Iraq producing too much

[seemslikeadream]

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=483&row=0

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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.

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[DinahMoeHum]

1. IOW, "if Bush can't get the oil, then no one else will get it" - right?

Just wondering.

:smoke:

[LSparkle]

2. Just like with Iran, too

We don't want too much Euro-traded oil on the market ... It's ALL about oil.

[bloom]

3. And what with * being such good friends with the Saudis and all...

that would make sense.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

4. K&R

[dogday]

5. Exactly that is why everyone doesn't understand where

the hell is the oil in Iraq? I have heard many people say, you would think that at least the cost of oil would be down since we invaded Iraq... This makes perfect since, there is always an ulterior motive with these bastards...

[dogday]

6. Kick, worth the read