Bush told the NSC to help Dick go after Iraqs oil way before 9/11/01

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http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/region/10181688.html

Oil and the looming threat to Iraq

By Adel Safty, Special to Gulf News
Published: January 14, 2008, 00:54


Access to and control of Middle East oil has figured prominently in the strategic thinking of American policy makers. In the Bush administration, State Department policy planners discussed scenarios for taking over by force the oilfields of the Middle East and internationalising them.

Jane Mayer revealed in the New Yorker that a secret Bush National Security Council (NSC) document dated February 3, 2001, instructed NSC members to cooperate with Vice President Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force for "reviewing international policy towards rogue states" and "actions regarding the capture of new and existing oil and gas fields."

The Bush administration has denied that the Iraq war was for oil, and proclaimed its commitment to the preservation of Iraq's sovereignty and Iraq's territorial integrity.

Recent events, however, indicate that oil is playing a role in the looming threat to Iraq's sovereignty and territorial integrity. Sovereignty under occupation is at best nominal anyhow.

Support for Iraq's territorial integrity offered the prospect of a strong central government able to contain the conflict from spreading into a wider regional war.

It also offered the best guarantee of achieving two of Washington's important goals in Iraq: access to Iraqi oil and an 'enduring' relationship with Iraq that gave Washington, through an Iraqi national oil law, the access and control it sought.

Shortly after Bush announced in February last year his new military strategy of escalation of the war in Iraq, then US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad welcomed progress towards an Iraqi oil law, and explained its importance in American strategic thinking about the future of Iraq.

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1. This was the SECRET Energy Task Force , right? The one where

we weren't allowed to know the members? I remember that one... The attendee list was apparently a "state secret"..

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2. We all remember that one.

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5. We've got $100 a barrel oil to remember it by.

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4. Yep, that "task force," and that list. I'm gonna go out on a bit of a limb here,

but I would be willing to bet that the "task force"--in essence, the Texas-American Petroleum Mafia--had already carved up Iraq's oil reserves long before 9/11. And I believe the list of "task force" attendees is secret so that no one can be identified and then subpoenaed to testify what they knew before 9/11. I believe those "task force" documents will prove that cheney*/bush* came into office, with the intent--and part of the prep work done--to invade and occupy Iraq well before 9/11.

Wake up America!:kick:

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3. Wow, what a huge surprise.....

NOT.