OIL ON YOUR FRENCH TOAST
THE FRENCH, GERMANS AND RUSSIANS DIDN'T WANT A WAR IN IRAQ
March 21, 2003
The French had a very good reason not to go along with the US in the
War in Iraq. For over 50 years US oil companies and US policy have "stolen"
French oil properties and contracts which has cost the French trillions of
dollars.
In 1954 the French lost Vietnam at the battle of Dien Bien Phu because
the US did not send any assistance. Actually at the end of WWII, the US had
given a good portion of the massive amount of weapons, stored on Okinawa in
1945 for the final land invasion of Japan, to Ho Chi Minh to assist his
program to "nationalize" French Indo-China, which is now the independent
country of Vietnam.
Thus General Giap of 'Nam war fame got his weapons from the US, to
drive out the French and later the US. But it was all very carefully
planned. The result was that the French lost a vast oil-rich property, and
the US took over in South 'Nam. After the contrived Gulf of Tonkin Incident
in 1964, for 10 years US oil companies did a secret seismic oil survey
offshore of South Vietnam from 1965 to 1975 under the guise of spent bombs
dropping and exploding in the sea in "designated areas" from returning US
war jets to the offshore carriers.
Less than a decade later, in 1985 when the new independent nation of
Vietnam finally opened up the offshore region for oil exploration, only
Chevron knew where to put their bids and get the oil-rich undersea tracts.
The Vietnamese had gotten a "free" oil survey to make them one of the
largest petroleum producers in Asia and Chevron hardly paid a nickel, since
Uncle Sam had "paid" for the secret survey under the guise of war. All the
many other nations who also bid on undersea oil lots only came up with very
costly dry holes. The French never even had a chance.
Also in 1954 when the French were being driven out of the French north
African colony of Algeria by "home-grown nationalist" uprisings, again the
US refused to help. The result was the French lost the colony in 1962 after
8 years of brutal war and the loss of millions of casualties. When the newly
independent Algeria opened up the desert for oil prospecting, darn if it
wasn't Texaco-Mobile-Chevron who got all the goodies and the French got
nothing. Algeria is one of the largest oil producers in Africa. The French
were starting to see a pattern.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia was ready
and willing to sell its vast supply of Black Sea and newly found Caspian Sea
oil to get some badly needed international cash. But how to get the oil to
the customers? The century-old Black Sea oilfields were already filling up
the narrow Bosporus channel through the ancient city of Istanbul, Turkey
with a daily conga-line log jam of oil tankers. But the Russians found
another way to get the new found oil to their big European customers, the
French and Germans. Just take oil barges and bypass the narrow Bosporus and
simply sail up the wide Danube River from the northwest edge of the Black
Sea.
The Blue Danube goes right up past Romania, the old Yugoslavia, the
Czech Republic, Austria and right into downtown oil refineries in Germany
and France just miles from the river. It was a good deal for the Russians,
the Germans and the French. Cheap Russian oil coming direct from the
producer, with no middle-man charging high OPEC or US market prices. That
is, until the Serbian/Kosovo war in 1999.
While nobody was paying attention, the Clinton administration bombed
and dropped all the bridges across the Danube in Serbia. Why did they do
that? That action instantly stopped all river traffic for the next 10 years.
So now what are the Russians, French and Germans to do? They are all losing
money and their economies hit a sharp downturn in 1999. The Russians can't
sell their oil to make quick cash and the French and Germans need to buy oil
from the "American multi-national oil companies" at the higher double-markup
spot market world price.
In 1999, all three countries found a willing go-between who would
transport the oil for cheap. It was Saddam Hussein right next door in Iraq.
He needed the cash he could make as an oil transporter. He couldn't sell his
own oil by 1991 UN edict, but he could legally pipe Russian Black Sea and
Caspian Sea oil right through the Caucasus Mountains using existing Iraqi
pipelines to the Persian Gulf and then the cheap Russian oil is sent direct
to the customers in Europe. Since it wasn't Iraqi oil, its all legal and the
French, Russians and Germans were fat and happy with Saddam's minimal markup
for transport. And if Saddam slipped in some of his own oil in the process,
who's to know.
Then along comes G. W. Bush and stops the process. No more oil is piped
through Iraq. Russia, Germany and France are furious, they are losing
billions. They don't want to go along with Bush on any war in Iraq. Bush
wants to "free" Iraq from that Saddam guy and then the control of Rusian oil
shipments through Iraq would again be by Texaco-Mobile-Chevron. And even
bigger is Standard Oil. But where is Standard? In January 1988, Standard
merged with British Petroleum to form the world's largest international oil
explorer, marketer and shipper. But the merged conglomerate mega-giant took
the name BP-America, later just BP, to make you think its a British company.
Not! Its still multi-national Standard Oil but now wearing "environmentalist
BP-green" just to fool you.
But "the Iraqi oil belongs to the Iraqi's," justifies Bush, but the
Germans and French don't care. They don't want the Iraqi oil, only that
cheap Russian oil coming through the Iraqi pipeline. And of course, without
Saddam, the price for being the middleman who runs the Iraqi pipeline spigot
suddenly shoots up. The Russians lose market share, the Germans and French
pay the higher world market price. The French are now really pissed. They
finally clearly see the devilish 50 year old pattern. The French, along with
most other countries in the world, see US President Bush and British Prime
Minister Blair as the guerilla hitmen snipers for BP, nee Standard Oil.
That explains why the French want Bush and Blair to take a long flying
leap off a short pier. It wasn't Americans or American policy that had
gypped the French for the last 50 years. It was the "American"
multi-national oil companies. Most foreigners don't distinguish between the
hated exploitative big-oil companies and the Americans. To most foreigners,
America is the oil company. Now you know why the French, Germans and
Russians did not go along with the UN resolution to attack Iraq. Would you
willingly vote to double the price of energy in your country? Now you know
why there is oil on your French Toast. Can you blame them?
If you are not old enough to remember WWII, the Vietnam War or the many
1954 “American oil takeovers” in French Indo-China, Algeria, along with
Venezuela and Iran, then you probably would believe all that media hype that
the War in Iraq is about Iraqi oil. Not so. Its about the only existing oil
pipeline direct from the southern Russian oilfields to the Persian Gulf. He
who owns that pipe controls the world price of oil, simply by opening and
closing the spigot. The vast Russian oil reserves make the Saudi and OPEC
oil fields look lilliputian.
And if you did not know about that Iraqi pipeline then you would
believe that the “shock and awe” tactics were aimed at shocking and fooling
the Iraqi’s. Not so. It was aimed at you. While you were watching the
fabulous fireworks on TV as the bombs fell on Baghdad, you did not notice
what the British-American coalition ground troops were really doing. Within
hours the troops had rushed in and taken control of the southern pipeline
terminal and tank farm facilities near the Persian Gulf port of Basra.
Likewise the troops quickly took control of the northern pipeline
facilities at Kirkuk and Mosul in the Caucasus mountains. That was to make
sure that in the confusion of war, the Turks did not rush in and take
control of the area. For decades the Turks have wanted to wrest control of
the Caucasus area from the Kurds so that Turkey would become the only
pipeline for Russian oil. But that is not in the BP-Standard Oil plan.
General Tommy Franks knows who he is working for. He made sure that never
happens.
If you want proof of all this, just read today's headlines. In the
coming weeks, ignore all the left-wing/right-wing hype and spin about what
you are supposed to think and feel about the horrors and tragedy of war and
evil dictators. Stay focused on the actual events that occur, not the spin.
Just notice that the Iraqi War will end when that Iraqi pipeline is securely
under British-American a.k.a., BP-Standard Oil control. For background
information on the history of the hidden oil wars that shaped the 20th
century and explain the current events in the 21st century read "Black Gold
Hot Gold." See above in the Brother Jonathan Gazette.
----------- Marshall Smith
Editor, BroJon Gazette
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"Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you
ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org
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