[political-research] Greg Palast, the Neocons and World War III

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:29:57 -0700

Greg Palast is an Israeli op, and an Israeli gatekeeper on the left.  How do we know this:
 
1. He goes to great pains not to discuss the key neoconservative players behind the Iraq War and World War III -- Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Michael Ledeen, Commentary, JINSA, AEI, WINEP, AIPAC and hundreds of other key neocons and neocon think tanks and media outlets.
 
2. He fails to explain why the mainstream media, especially media outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post, promoted the Iraq War so heavily without any calculations of oil profits in mind.  How are Thomas Friedman, Judith Miller and Charles Krauthammer connected to oil interests?  They are not.  They are heavily connected to Israeli interests.
 
3. He fails to provide any specific facts and documentation about the role of the oil industry in promoting the Iraq War, the Iran War, the Syria War, World War III, World War IV and all the rest.  He merely speculates.
 
4. He fails to explain why Bush 41 interests, which are intimately tied to oil interests, have opposed neoconservative warmongering in the Middle East.
 
Greg Palast is working for Israeli interests, no doubt for intensely emotional reasons.  His analysis of Mideast politics is highly unreliable.

Let's see if Kris Millegan can answer the four points above with any reliable facts and logical arguments.  Since he is unfamiliar with the history of conflict between realists and neoconservatives in American foreign policy in the Middle East,  which has played itself out in hundreds of articles in scholarly journals over the last four or five decades, it doesn't seem likely.
 

RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Howdy folks, 

Here is a major troll trick that is used to hijack a thread and slow down the spread of information.

Stripped the original message and adding "noise."

This "noise" although noble sounding, is a distraction. 

Why, because if you actually read the post  "Bobby Kennedy and Greg Palast on Iraq," one finds information that is counter to the "controlled dialectic" that is being used. 

Pro-Israel/Anti-Israel

 One must choose a side.

Then if one is Pro-Israel they are Zionist.

And if one is a Zionist the support the neo-cons and official story of 9-11.

The article  Bobby Kennedy and Greg Palast on Iraq includes material from Palast new book that shows the oil companies are major actors in the move to get rid of Sadam and the Iraq war. Why ? For oil? No. To control the oil supply, ergo prices. 

The neo-cons are "oven-mitt" proxies. 

And Bush, Baker and Carlyle are laughing all the way to the bank while the neo-cons take the heat.

Since the original article has been "stripped."

I am adding it back.

Please, read, if you want to truly understand and not just play two-step games. 

Peace, 
K


On 3.8.2006 at 5:37 Greg Palast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]com> wrote:
Greg Palast
August 3, 2006
"THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD FOR BIG OIL"
… Bobby Kennedy and Palast on why Saddam had to go.
"This war in Iraq has been the best thing in the world for Big Oil and OPEC. They've made the largest profits in the history of the world. The interesting thing about your book is you show how it was all planned from the beginning. The story is like a spy thriller." -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Listen to RFK and Greg Palast on Iraq, a 20-minute conversation about blood and oil, the podcast of 'Ring of Fire' from Air America.


The following is part of the story referenced in their discussion:
THE JERK: WHY SADDAM HAD TO GO
by Greg Palast
Excerpt from 'Armed Madhouse'
The 323-page multi-volume "Options for Iraqi Oil" begins with the expected dungeons-and-dragons warning:
The report is submitted on the understanding that [the
State Department] will maintain the contents confidential.

For two years, the State Department (and Defense and the White House) denied there were secret plans for Iraq's oil. They told us so in writing. That was the first indication the plan existed. Proving that, and getting a copy, became the near-to-pathologic obsession of our team.
Our big break came when James Baker's factotum, Amy Jaffe, first reached on her cell in Amsterdam, then at Baker's operation in Houston, convinced herself that I had the right to know about the plan. I saw no reason to correct her impression. To get the plan's title I used a truly dumb trick, asking if her copy's headings matched mine. She read it to me and listed its true authors from the industry.
The plan carries the State Department logo on the cover, Washington DC. But it was crafted in Houston, under the tutelage of the oil industry -- including, we discovered, Donald Hertzmark, an advisor to the Indonesia state oil company, and Garfield Miller of Aegis Energy, advisors to Solomon Smith Barney, all hosted by the James A. Baker III Institute.
After a year of schmoozing, Jaffe invited me to the Baker lair in Houston.
The James A. Baker III Institute is constructed a bit like a church or mosque, with a large echoing rotunda under a dome at its center, encircled by memorabilia and photos of the Great Man himself with the world's leaders, about evenly split between dictators and democrats.
And there is the obligatory shot of a smiling Nelson Mandela shaking Baker III's hand. (Mandela is not so impolite as to remind Jim that he was Reagan's Chief of Staff when Reagan coddled the regime that kept Mandela imprisoned.)
For tax purposes, it's an educational institute, and looking through the alarm-protected display cases along the wall was unquestionably an education. You could virtually write the recommendations of the 'Options for Iraqi Oil' report by a careful inspection of the trinkets of Baker's travels among the powerful.
There is the golden royal robe given Baker by Kazakh strongman Nazerbaev, the one who shared in the $51 million payment from ExxonMobil -- a James A. Baker client -- and alongside it a jeweled sword with a note from Nazerbaev, "Jim, there will always be a slice for you." (I made that up.)
Who is this James A. Baker III that he rates a whole institute, and one that will tell Iraq its oil future? Once Secretary of State to Bush Sr., Baker was now promoted to consigliere to ExxonMobil, the Republican National Committee and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
In Houston, I found in Jaffe a preppy, talky Jewish girl with a Bronx accent like a dentist's drill who, stranded in a cowboy world, poignantly wanted to be one of The Boys. She thinks she can accomplish this through fashion accoutrements -- she showed me her alligator cowboy boots and rolled her eyes -- "for Rodeo Day!"
Lucky for me and my (hidden) recorder, she did not learn from Baker and the boys' Rule #1 for rulers: shut up.
So while Amy was in the mood to say too much, and before I got into the details of Big Oil's plan for Iraq, I needed Amy's help in finding the answer to the question that was just driving me crazy: why did Saddam have to go? Why did the oil industry promote an invasion of Iraq to get rid of Saddam?
The question is basic but the answer is not at all obvious.
We know the neo-cons' answer: Their ultimate target of the invasion was Saudi Arabia, which would be cut low by a Free Iraq's busting the OPEC oil cartel. But Big Oil wouldn't let that happen. The neo-cons' scheme ended up an unnoted smear under
Amy's alligator boot heels.
And we can rule out Big Oil's desire for Iraq's oil as the decisive motive to invade. The last thing the oil industry wanted from Iraq in 2001 was a lot more oil.
Neither Saddam's affection for euro currency nor panic over oil supply 'peaking' ruffled the international oil industry. What, then, made Saddam, so easy to hug in the 1980s, unbearable in the 1990s?
Saddam had to go, but why?
Amy told me they held meetings about it.
Beginning just after Bush's Florida 'victory' in December 2000, the shepherds of the planet's assets got together to plan our energy future under the weighty aegis of the "Joint Task Force on Petroleum of the James A. Baker III Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations." The master plan makers included Paul Bremer's and Kissinger's partner, Mack McLarty, CEO of Kissinger McLarty Associates; John Manzoni of British Petroleum; Luis Giusti, former CEO of the Venezuelan state oil company (until Hugo Chavez kicked him out); Ken Lay of Enron (pre-indictment); Philip Verleger of the National Petroleum Council, and other movers and shakers crucial to such bi-partisan multi-continental group gropes -- all chaired by Dr. Edward Morse, the insider's insider, from Hess Oil Trading.
Their final report detailed Saddam's crimes. Gassing Kurds and Iranians? No. James A. Baker was the Reagan Chief of Staff when the U.S. provided Saddam the intelligence to better target his chemical weapons. Weapons of Mass Destruction? Not since this crowd stopped selling him the components.
In the sanitary words of the Council on Foreign Relations' report (written up by Jaffe herself), Saddam's problem was that he was a "swinger":
Tight markets have increased U.S. and global vulnerability
to disruption and provided adversaries undue potential in-
fluence over the price of oil. Iraq has become a key
"swing" producer, posing a difficult situation for the U.S.
government.
Now hold on a minute: Why is our government in a "difficult" position if Iraq is a "swing producer" of oil?
The answer was that Saddam was jerking the oil market up and down. One week, without notice, the man in the moustache suddenly announces he's going to "support the Palestinian intifada" and cuts off all oil shipments. The result: Worldwide oil prices jump up. The next week, Saddam forgets about the Palestinians and pumps to the maximum allowed under the Oil-for-Food Program. The result: Oil prices suddenly dive-bomb. Up, down, up, down. Saddam was out of control.
"Control is what it's all about," one oilman told me. "It's not about getting the oil, it's about controlling oil's price."
So, within days of Bush's election in November 2000, the James Baker Institute issued this warning:
In a market with so little cushion to cover unexpected
events, oil prices become extremely sensitive to perceived
supply risks. Such a market increases the potential lever-
age of an otherwise lesser producer such as Iraq...
I met with Falah Aljibury, an advisor to Goldman Sachs, the Baker/CFR group and, I discovered, host to the State Department's invasion planning meetings in February 2001. The Iraqi-born industry man put it this way: "Iraq is not stable, a wild card." Saddam cuts production, or suddenly boosts it, playing games with the U.N. over the Oil-for-Food Program. The tinpot despot was, almost alone, setting the weekly world price of oil and Big Oil did not care for that. In the CFR's sober language:
Saddam is a "destabilizing influence... to the flow of oil
to international markets from the Middle East."
With Saddam out of control, jerking markets up and down, the price of controlling the price was getting just too high. Saddam drove the oil boys bonkers. For example, Saddam's games pushed the State Department, disastrously, to launch, in April 2002, a coup d'etat in Venezuela.
This could not stand. Saddam delighted in playing cat-and-mouse with the USA and our oil majors. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't playing with mice, but a much bigger and unforgiving breed of rodents.
Saddam was asking for it. It was time for a "military assessment." The CFR concluded:
Saddam Hussein has demonstrated a willingness to
threaten to use the oil weapon to manipulate oil mar-
kets... United States should conduct an immediate pol-
icy review toward Iraq, including military, energy,
economic, and political/diplomatic assessments.
The true motive to invade Iraq, Saddam's "manipulation of oil markets," was there, but not yet, in April 2001, the official excuse.
Not surprisingly, the desires of the "Project for a New American Century," the neo-con field of dreams, of remaking Arabia, was not in the Baker Institute-CFR plan. However, the conclusion, Saddam must go, matched the neo-con's policy demand, if for highly different reasons. The Baker-CFR panel had a limited concern: Get rid of the jerk, the guy yanking the market.
Morse was close-lipped about who saw and used the 2001 Baker-CFR report, but Amy Jaffe could not help telling me that Morse reported its conclusions in a briefing at the Pentagon.
More important, back in early 2001, the initial Baker-CFR report (another participant tipped me) was handed directly to Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney met secretly with CFR task force members (including Ken Lay) to go over the maps of Iraq's oil fields. That, apparently, sealed it. Cheney took the CFR/Baker recommendations as his own plan for dissecting Iraq, I'm told, beginning with the none-too-thinly-veiled take-out-Saddam "assessment."
And whose plan was it? I knew the membership of the Baker-CFR group was Big Oil and its retainers. But I was curious to know who put up the cash for drafting the extravagant report that was so protective of OPEC and Saudi interests. This document was, after all, the outline on which the Bush administration drew its grand design for energy, from Iraq to California to Venezuela. According to Jaffe, the cost of this exercise in Imperialism Lite was funded by "the generous support of Khalid al-Turki" of Saudi Arabia.
**********
Excerpt adapted from Greg Palast's just-released New York Times bestseller, "ARMED MADHOUSE: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats Bush Sinks, the Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's Behind Left and other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War." www.GregPalast.com. May be reproduced without permission.
Special thanks to investigator Leni von Eckardt for preferring documentation over sleep.




On Aug 3, 2006, at 8:13 AM, judson witham wrote:

Kicking Some Ass LEGALLY is the Objective
 
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Cathy Garger <savorsuccesslady3@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi Judson,
 
Good to see you here.  I know you are more than knowledgeable on how to research the law. As you probably know, these groups have some parameters, and if I am not mistaken, we can not engage in discussions of any unlawful activity on this group.
 
That being said, we still can - actually, I believe, *must* - find ways to get more veterans and active military to join us here at this group.
 
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judson witham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]com> wrote:
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Make That 101 times ten thousand.  I met at BYU with Steve Jones and He Was Concerned About Getting FBI, NTSB, DOD, White House, NORAD, NYC Police, NYC Port Authority etc., et al to FULLY Comply with FOIA requests.
The Information Sought By Me over 6 weeks ago IS NOT FORTHCOMING from NTSB.  FOIA has been VIOLATED by Agency of the US Government
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judson witham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]com> wrote:
 
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