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Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Why did we invade Iraq?
Did we invade to steal oil? Were we a cudgel wielded by the Israelis? Were both factors involved? If you're inclined to dismiss oil as the chief motive for the crime, read this.
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i can see this information being a central fact in the coming war crimes trials of lots of republicans, and don't think it won't happen either. The populations in the rest of the world do not want to be invaded because some bully covets what they own. It will happen!!
One needs no special insight to understand the workings of criminal minds bent on thievery. The Bush administration has illegally invaded two sovreign nations without provocation, without authorization and without justification and entirely and intentionally justified by LIES.
Criminals do much the same thing when they rob stores and/or banks.
what fascinates me in this whole picture is the fact that, in the face of their scheme being so inconveniently disrupted by the rude insurgency, they continue to exploit the situation by cranking up oil prices. all despite their gargantuan profits!
If you're quick to dismiss Israel as playing a central role in the war, consider the following.
Richard Perle and Douglas Feith, among the top neocons who masterminded the war, wrote the following in the article "A Clean Break" in 1996:
Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right — as a means of foiling Syria’s regional ambitions.
The OSP was an open and largely unfiltered conduit to the White House not only for the Iraqi opposition. It also forged close ties to a parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation inside Ariel Sharon's office in Israel specifically to bypass Mossad and provide the Bush administration with more alarmist reports on Saddam's Iraq than Mossad was prepared to authorise.
"None of the Israelis who came were cleared into the Pentagon through normal channels," said one source familiar with the visits. Instead, they were waved in on Mr Feith's authority without having to fill in the usual forms.
The exchange of information continued a long-standing relationship Mr Feith and other Washington neo-conservatives had with Israel's Likud party.
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The Israeli influence was revealed most clearly by a story floated by unnamed senior US officials in the American press, suggesting the reason that no banned weapons had been found in Iraq was that they had been smuggled into Syria. Intelligence sources say that the story came from the office of the Israeli prime minister.
Now, the oil in Iraq is definitely important - but is it necessarily the United States who will wind up in control of that oil?
Even as the U.S. military campaign in Iraq is yet to wrap up, early signs are emerging of how the Washington's allies — Israel, Jordan and Kuwait are planning to engage a post-war Iraq in a commercial and political network that would have far-reaching ramifications on the region.
As the battle for Baghdad began, the Israeli Minister for Infrastructure, Yosef Paritzky, brought on the agenda, the revival of oil pipeline from Mosul in northern Iraq to the Israeli Mediterranean port of Haifa that has been in disuse since 1948.
The original pipeline from Mosul reached the Israeli port via the Syrian mainland. But with Syria in the firing line, both from Israel and recently from the U.S., there is talk about diverting this pipeline's route.
Instead of heading towards Syria, the Mosul pipeline, it is now proposed, could transit into Israel via Jordan.
In case this idea materialises, the reward for Jordan, which has clearly sided with the U.S. in the war against Iraq would be enormous.
Not only would the transit of this pipeline yield hefty revenues, Jordan's position as a strategic lynchpin in the post-war West Asian political order would become fully established.
Analysts point out that the importance of this oil route is not just regional, but global in scope.
This is because the Mosul pipeline would take Iraqi oil, not to the Persian Gulf, but to the Mediterranean Sea. This will particularly suit the U.S., which has been worried about receiving the bulk of its oil supplies from oil terminals in the potentially turbulent Persian Gulf area.
Also, check out the involvement of Israeli agents in Kurdistan, and the fact that Israelis have been pushing for Kurdish independence for a long time. Kurdistan is where most of Iraq's oil is.
4 comments:
i can see this information being a central fact in the coming war crimes trials of lots of republicans, and don't think it won't happen either. The populations in the rest of the world do not want to be invaded because some bully covets what they own.
It will happen!!
One needs no special insight to understand the workings of criminal minds bent on thievery.
The Bush administration has illegally invaded two sovreign nations without provocation, without authorization and without justification and entirely and intentionally justified by LIES.
Criminals do much the same thing when they rob stores and/or banks.
what fascinates me in this whole picture is the fact that, in the face of their scheme being so inconveniently disrupted by the rude insurgency, they continue to exploit the situation by cranking up oil prices. all despite their gargantuan profits!
a skunk by any other name....
If you're quick to dismiss Israel as playing a central role in the war, consider the following.
Richard Perle and Douglas Feith, among the top neocons who masterminded the war, wrote the following in the article "A Clean Break" in 1996:
Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right — as a means of foiling Syria’s regional ambitions.
Also, where was the Office of Special Plans getting its information?
The OSP was an open and largely unfiltered conduit to the White House not only for the Iraqi opposition. It also forged close ties to a parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation inside Ariel Sharon's office in Israel specifically to bypass Mossad and provide the Bush administration with more alarmist reports on Saddam's Iraq than Mossad was prepared to authorise.
"None of the Israelis who came were cleared into the Pentagon through normal channels," said one source familiar with the visits. Instead, they were waved in on Mr Feith's authority without having to fill in the usual forms.
The exchange of information continued a long-standing relationship Mr Feith and other Washington neo-conservatives had with Israel's Likud party.
...
The Israeli influence was revealed most clearly by a story floated by unnamed senior US officials in the American press, suggesting the reason that no banned weapons had been found in Iraq was that they had been smuggled into Syria. Intelligence sources say that the story came from the office of the Israeli prime minister.
Now, the oil in Iraq is definitely important - but is it necessarily the United States who will wind up in control of that oil?
Even as the U.S. military campaign in Iraq is yet to wrap up, early signs are emerging of how the Washington's allies — Israel, Jordan and Kuwait are planning to engage a post-war Iraq in a commercial and political network that would have far-reaching ramifications on the region.
As the battle for Baghdad began, the Israeli Minister for Infrastructure, Yosef Paritzky, brought on the agenda, the revival of oil pipeline from Mosul in northern Iraq to the Israeli Mediterranean port of Haifa that has been in disuse since 1948.
The original pipeline from Mosul reached the Israeli port via the Syrian mainland. But with Syria in the firing line, both from Israel and recently from the U.S., there is talk about diverting this pipeline's route.
Instead of heading towards Syria, the Mosul pipeline, it is now proposed, could transit into Israel via Jordan.
In case this idea materialises, the reward for Jordan, which has clearly sided with the U.S. in the war against Iraq would be enormous.
Not only would the transit of this pipeline yield hefty revenues, Jordan's position as a strategic lynchpin in the post-war West Asian political order would become fully established.
Analysts point out that the importance of this oil route is not just regional, but global in scope.
This is because the Mosul pipeline would take Iraqi oil, not to the Persian Gulf, but to the Mediterranean Sea. This will particularly suit the U.S., which has been worried about receiving the bulk of its oil supplies from oil terminals in the potentially turbulent Persian Gulf area.
Also, check out the involvement of Israeli agents in Kurdistan, and the fact that Israelis have been pushing for Kurdish independence for a long time. Kurdistan is where most of Iraq's oil is.
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