Here is an interesting scenario and a quite plausible explanation for the Iraq War.
For life and liberty, David Macko ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Palast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 2:04 PM Subject: Bush Didn't Bungle Iraq, You Fools > Bush Didn't Bungle Iraq, You Fools > THE MISSION WAS INDEED ACCCOMPLISHED > by Greg Palast > for The Guardian > > 20 March 2006 > > Get off it. All the carping, belly-aching and complaining about George > Bush's incompetence in Iraq, from both the Left and now the Right, is just > dead wrong. > > On the third anniversary of the tanks rolling over Iraq's border, most of > the 59 million Homer Simpsons who voted for Bush are beginning to doubt if > his mission was accomplished. > > But don't kid yourself -- Bush and his co-conspirator, Dick Cheney, > accomplished exactly what they set out to do. In case you've forgotten > what their real mission was, let me remind you of White House spokesman > Ari Fleisher's original announcement, three years ago, launching of what > he called, > > "Operation > Iraqi > Liberation." > > O.I.L. How droll of them, how cute. Then, Karl Rove made the giggling boys > in the White House change it to "OIF" -- Operation Iraqi Freedom. But the > 101st Airborne wasn't sent to Basra to get its hands on Iraq's OIF. > > "It's about oil," Robert Ebel told me. Who is Ebel? Formerly the CIA's top > oil analyst, he was sent by the Pentagon, about a month before the > invasion, to a secret confab in London with Saddam's former oil minister > to finalize the plans for "liberating" Iraq's oil industry. In London, > Bush's emissary Ebel also instructed Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum, the man the > Pentagon would choose as post-OIF oil minister for Iraq, on the correct > method of disposing Iraq's crude. > > And what did the USA want Iraq to do with Iraq's oil? The answer will > surprise many of you: and it is uglier, more twisted, devilish and devious > than anything imagined by the most conspiracy-addicted blogger. The answer > can be found in a 323-page plan for Iraq's oil secretly drafted by the > State Department. Our team got a hold of a copy; how, doesn't matter. The > key thing is what's inside this thick Bush diktat: a directive to Iraqis > to maintain a state oil company that will "enhance its relationship with > OPEC." > > Enhance its relationship with OPEC??? How strange: the government of the > United States ordering Iraq to support the very OPEC oil cartel which is > strangling our nation with outrageously high prices for crude. > > Specifically, the system ordered up by the Bush cabal would keep a lid on > Iraq's oil production -- limiting Iraq's oil pumping to the tight quota > set by Saudi Arabia and the OPEC cartel. > > There you have it. Yes, Bush went in for the oil -- not to get MORE of > Iraq's oil, but to prevent Iraq producing TOO MUCH of it. > > You must keep in mind who paid for George's ranch and Dick's bunker: Big > Oil. And Big Oil -- and their buck-buddies, the Saudis -- don't make money > from pumping more oil, but from pumping LESS of it. The lower the supply, > the higher the price. > > It's Economics 101. The oil industry is run by a cartel, OPEC, and what > economists call an "oligopoly" -- a tiny handful of operators who make > more money when there's less oil, not more of it. So, every time the > "insurgents" blow up a pipeline in Basra, every time Mad Mahmoud in Tehran > threatens to cut supply, the price of oil leaps. And Dick and George just > LOVE it. > > Dick and George didn't want more oil from Iraq, they wanted less. I know > some of you, no matter what I write, insist that our President and his > Veep are on the hunt for more crude so you can cheaply fill your family > Hummer; that somehow, these two oil-patch babies are concerned that the > price of gas in the USA is bumping up to $3 a gallon. > > No so, gentle souls. Three bucks a gallon in the States (and a quid a > litre in Britain) means colossal profits for Big Oil, and that makes > Dick's ticker go pitty-pat with joy. The top oily-gopolists, the five > largest oil companies, pulled in $113 billion in profit in 2005 -- > compared to a piddly $34 billion in 2002 before Operation Iraqi > Liberation. In other words, it's been a good war for Big Oil. > > As per Plan Bush, Bahr Al-Ulum became Iraq's occupation oil minister; the > conquered nation "enhanced its relationship with OPEC;" and the price of > oil, from Clinton peace-time to Bush war-time, shot up 317%. > > In other words, on the third anniversary of invasion, we can say the > attack and occupation is, indeed, a Mission Accomplished. However, it > wasn't America's mission, nor the Iraqis'. It was an Mission Accomplished > for OPEC and Big Oil. > > ********** > On June 6, Penguin Dutton will release GREG PALAST'S NEW BOOK, "ARMED > MADHOUSE: DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES OF THE CLASS WAR." Order it > today -- and view his investigative reports for Harper's Magazine and BBC > television's Newsnight -- at www.GregPalast.com. > > Palast returns to the pages of the Guardian today with this column. 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