Reply #23: I'm not sure what Neocons want [View All]

[moodforaday]

Greg Palast recently did an interesting piece of reporting, aired on BBC's Newsnight, about how there were actually two plans on how to run Iraq with regard to privatization and oil. One was the corporate plan, the other was a Neocon plan. Palast says the latter won, and big oil was pissed. Here's Palast's recent article about that:
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=417&row=1

In one interview Palast put forth a good meme, which I'll quote from memory: "Big Oil wants the Middle East oil fields, but they don't want them on fire." Neo-cons don't seem to be making this distinciton.