Secret U.S. Plans for Iraq's Oil - Democratic Underground

MountainLaurel

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Thu Mar-16-06 08:28 PM
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Secret U.S. Plans for Iraq's Oil

OK, I searched to see if anyone had posted this already, and didn't see anything. This surpises me, because you'd think someone would have been all over this before now.

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.

Iraqi-born Falah Aljibury says US Neo-Conservatives planned to force a coup d'etat in Iraq
Two years ago today - when President George Bush announced US, British and Allied forces would begin to bomb Baghdad - protesters 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.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm

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TrogL

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Thu Mar-16-06 08:34 PM
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1. I've devoted part of a website to that

Edited on Thu Mar-16-06 08:34 PM by TrogL

http://members.shaw.ca/trogl/oilwar/part2.html

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Amonester

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Thu Mar-16-06 08:47 PM
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2. The *real* word should be "prag-fascists" instead of...

"pragmatists"...

.Send.The.Cabal.Of.Liars.To.the.Hague.

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bananas

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Thu Mar-16-06 08:55 PM
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3. It was discussed last year

That news story is from last year.
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MountainLaurel

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Thu Mar-16-06 09:02 PM
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4. Shit, I didn't notice

That the article was from 2005, not 2006. A colleague sent it to me today.

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