View Full Version : Secret is out: the Iraq war was for oil profits


WildBlueYonder
04-28-06, 01:28 AM
the evidence:
1) Cheney & oil execs hold secret meetings to decide oil policy
2) neo-cons pre-plan to invade Iraq (home to 2nd largest oil reserves)
3) destabilize Iraq
4) control all oil supplies, pipelines, refineries
5) shake up markets with uncertainty or take advantage of disasters (Katrina, Rita, Iraq, Iran, Nigeria, Venenzuela, China, India, Pakistan)

equals
6) $3+ plus gas, record profits

see below:

http://www.progress.org/2003/greenp19.htm
Such reports have prompted consumer advocate and 2000 Green presidential candidate Ralph Nader to ask about the extent to which oil companies were involved in the decision to invade Iraq. "The American people also have a right to know what was discussed in the numerous secret meetings Vice President Cheney's national energy task force held with oil and gas executives." ("What Role the Oil Industry Playing in Bush's Drive to War?", by Ralph Nader, CommonDreams.org, February 14, 2003)

*** The U.S. consumes 26% of the world's oil, but possesses only 2% of the world's oil reserves. The U.S. imports 9.8 million barrels of oil a day, more than half of its 19.5 million barrels a day consumption. Cheney's national energy plan, drafted during the secret meetings with oil executives, wants the U.S. to import 17 million barrels a day, or 2/3 of daily oil consumption, by 2020. The plan makes energy security, including control over the availability of oil to other nations, a priority of U.S. foreign policy.


http://zfacts.com/p/771.html
First, What was Cheney saying in 2000?
At a celebration dinner after the 2000 presidential campaign, he privately told a group of friends that the new White House team may have a rare historic opportunity to right a wrong committed during a previous term -- the mistake of leaving Saddam Hussein in place atop the Iraqi government. (Wall St. J.)
2001: How Cheney brought them in. (See Below)


http://www.forbes.com/markets/2005/01/31/cx_ab_0131video2.html
NEW YORK - In the headlines this afternoon, it's been a record quarter and year for Exxon Mobil.

The oil giant raked in $8.42 billion in the fourth quarter and more than $25 billion for all of 2004, both record-high profits in its history. Exxon Mobil (nyse: XOM - news - people ) blew away Wall Street forecasts, as higher oil and natural-gas prices offset a slight dip in production.


let me leave you with Bob Dylan
http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/masters.html
Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
...

Neildo
04-28-06, 10:46 PM
let me leave you with Bob Dylan
http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/masters.html

My favorite song of his. :)

Hey, Bush, Cheney and Co':

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead

- N

WildBlueYonder
04-29-06, 03:31 AM
I must be missing something here, I may not understand basic “supply & demand” capitalism, but how do you explain such insane profits as those listed below? Good business sense, expert planning, good loopholes, great lobbyists, great connections, extreme greediness?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9854784/
Oil profits fuel consumer outrage
Exxon Mobil earned nearly $10 billion in third quarter
Friday, Chevron joined the eye-popping profits parade. The nation's No. 2 oil company reported earnings of $3.6 billion. The totals only get bigger: Conoco Phillips made $3.8 billion, BP made $6.5 billion, Royal Dutch Shell made $9 billion and Exxon Mobil raked in a whopping $9.9 billion in just three months.

“Exxon made more than any other company, as a matter of fact,” says Howard Silverblatt, a market equity analyst with Standard & Poor's. “Their profits by themselves were more than 492 companies made for the entire year within the S&P 500.”

note, that out of 500 companies in the S&P, 8 made alot of money, tons of money
5 of those 8 are oil compnies, nuff said?