From Albert Kreb's site, The Calamity Howler:
REALITY OF U.S. HISTORY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
By Rep. Jim McDermott Washington State
May, 2007
Mr. Speaker:
This president and vice president have vowed to repeat the mistakes of
history, and they have put into motion a plan to do just that in Iran,
even as the House is about to send the president a box of blank checks
for Iraq, against the will of the American people. The history is worth
knowing.
In 1953, the United States and United Kingdom launched Operation Ajax, a
covert CIA operation to destabilize and remove the democratically
elected government of Iran, including then Prime Minister Mohammed
Mossadegh.
Why? Oil.
Under Mossadegh, the Iranian government decided to reclaim Iran's
rightful ownership of its national oil treasure, which had been
exclusively controlled by the British who were taking 85% of the
profits. Oh, and by the way, the U.K. also kept the books secret, merely
telling Iran what its 15% take was. As soon as Mossadegh began to
reclaim Iran's oil treasure, it was all over. Operation Ajax was set
into motion.
The U.S. embassy in Tehran provoked phony internal Iranian dissent,
while the Brits engineered an Iranian financial crisis by orchestrating
a global boycott of Iranian oil. We brought down the Iranian government
and installed the Shah.
For two decades, we propped up the Shah against the will of the Iranian
people. It was all about controlling Iran. It still is. Today, ABC News
is reporting exclusively that this president has authorized a new covert
CIA plot to bring down the Iranian government. I ask unanimous consent
to enter into the record the journalism produced by chief investigative
reporter Brian Ross and Richard Esposito of ABC News.
This is their lead sentence in the story.
"The CIA has received secret presidential approval to mount a covert
'black' operation to destabilize the Iranian government, current and
former officials in the intelligence community tell the Blotter on
ABCNews.com."
We're back in 1953, and that worked out so well. Of course, the vice
president wanted to invade Iran, so we can be sure he will spin new
tales of fear in coming days to keep his preferred option, invasion,
very much alive. The president knows only one way --- my way or the
highway.
His vice president knows only one way --- invade and seize control of
what you want --- and he wants the oil treasure of Iraq and Iran to
become wholly owned subsidiaries of the western oil companies he so favors.
With Iraq in civil war, the president has authorized a secret plan to
repeat the doomed mistakes of history in Iran. How many billions of
reconstruction money for Iraq will be siphoned off for the
deconstruction of Iran?
The American people are virtually shouting at us to pay attention and
get our soldiers out of Iraq, now. Vast sums of U.S. taxpayer money are
flowing into Iraq and billions of U.S. dollars are missing. The special
inspector for Iraq reconstruction told a San Antonio newspaper last week
that corruption in Iraq is endemic and debilitating.
But, Prime Minister al-Maliki has granted ministers and former ministers
immunity from prosecution by Iraq's Commission on Public Integrity. And,
in turn, the ministers can shield their own employees from prosecution.
And, a government that has been told by this president and vice
president to pass an oil law that transfers control --- and profits ---
to Western oil companies, just like the good old days in Iran.
Overthrowing Iran in 1953 was all about oil. Invading Iraq was all about
oil. And the new secret plot against Iran is all about oil.
Oil is the only benchmark this president and vice president want, and
they will keep American soldiers fighting and dying until an oil law is
passed in Iraq that gives Western oil companies control of the spigot.
It is time to unmask the latest doomed plot to overthrow Iran and past
time to get out soldiers out of Iraq.
Nothing less than protecting our troops is acceptable.
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