Excellent piece on the history of Rummy, Bechtel, and Iraq

[Lyle]

http://www.gnn.tv/articles/1936/Flashback_Crude_Vision

[MissMarple]

1. Thanks Lyle, what nice little package tied with a bow.

Welcome to DU!

"In a recently released investigative report from the Institute for Policy Studies entitled Crude Vision: How Oil Interests Obscured U.S. Government Focus On Chemical Weapons Use by Saddam Hussein , researchers Jim Vallette, Steve Kretzmann, and Daphne Wysham detail the real reason Donald Rumsfeld was sent to Baghdad: Rumsfeld, under direct instructions from the White House, was there to convince Saddam Hussein to approve a highly lucrative, and highly secret, oil pipeline project from Iraq to Jordan.

Examining recently released government and corporate sources, the researchers document how a close-knit group of high-ranking U.S. officials worked in secrecy for two years attempting to secure the billion dollar pipeline scheme for the Bechtel corporation. The Bush/Cheney administration now eyes Bechtel as a primary contractor for the rebuilding of Iraq’s infrastructure.

Bechtel’s pipeline would have carried a million barrels of Iraqi crude oil a day through Jordan to the Red Sea port of Aqaba.

What happened to the pipeline deal? What trade-offs were made? Who were the players? How did Israel fit into the scheme? What impact did it have on current U.S. policy?".....

It gets better...

[400Years]

2. This is why DiFi supports the invasion

[MissMarple]

3. The invasion, well thats calling it what it is.

Oh, joy, now we are invaders, the imperial horde. Liberators, flowers in the street, my eye.

What has George done to our country, our military? He puts treason into an entirely new perspective.