From Afghanistan to Iraq: Connecting the Dots With Oil

[pberq]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020707P.shtml

From Afghanistan to Iraq: Connecting the Dots With Oil
By Richard W. Behan
AlterNet

Monday 05 February 2007

In the Caspian Basin and beneath the deserts of Iraq, as many as 783 billion barrels of oil are waiting to be pumped. Anyone controlling that much oil stands a good chance of breaking OPEC's stranglehold overnight, and any nation seeking to dominate the world would have to go after it.

The long-held suspicions about George Bush's wars are well-placed. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were not prompted by the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. They were not waged to spread democracy in the Middle East or enhance security at home. They were conceived and planned in secret long before September 11, 2001 and they were undertaken to control petroleum resources.

The "global war on terror" began as a fraud and a smokescreen and remains so today, a product of the Bush Administration's deliberate and successful distortion of public perception. The fragmented accounts in the mainstream media reflect this warping of reality, but another more accurate version of recent history is available in contemporary books and the vast information pool of the Internet. When told start to finish, the story becomes clear, the dots easier to connect.

Both appalling and masterful, the lies that led us into war and keep us there today show the people of the Bush Administration to be devious, dangerous and far from stupid.

The following is an in-depth look at the oil wars, the events leading up to them, and the players who made them possible. . .

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[Turbineguy]

1. I maintain that

originally the Iraq war, which was only going to cost 1 billion in chump change, was not about the oil. It was a nice little war that would make George W. Bush look like a guy who finished his Father's undertaking (Remember, Bush wanted war in Iraq long before the 911 Attacks were a gleam in anyone's eye). Only since the real cost of the war has become some 1000 times as high as originally projected, has stealing the oil become a necessity.

[cliss]

2. OIL: the black blood

that sustains our economy, our lifestyle, our very lives.

Of course it was about the oil.

It was never about democracy, bringing freedom to the Middle East. ~All Fairy Tales~~

OIL