Canberra briefed in 2003 on Iraq oil carve-up plan ("blood for oil")

[Barrett808]

Canberra briefed in 2003 on Iraq oil carve-up plan
By Richard Baker
May 11, 2006

THE Howard Government was briefed in May 2003 by BHP Billiton and Tigris Petroleum on their plans to get US Vice-President Dick Cheney, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and British Prime Minister Tony Blair to support their bid to carve up Iraq's oilfields.

Documents released by the Cole inquiry reveal Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer was told by former British foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind at a meeting on May 19, 2003, in London that BHP and Tigris planned to inject up to $2 billion into Iraqi oilfields. Sir Malcolm, a BHP consultant and long-time associate of Tigris chief Norman Davidson Kelly, told Mr Downer that high-level political support would be required to ensure that the BHP/Tigris plan succeeded.

He told Mr Downer the Australian Government would need to press the BHP/Tigris claim in Washington and Baghdad. Sir Malcolm said he would meet Mr Cheney to discuss the proposal, adding that BHP and Tigris would also lobby Downing Street.

Mr Downer pledged to support the oil plan but stressed the political sensitivities raised by the proposal. A declassified Foreign Affairs document recording the conversation with Sir Malcolm shows Mr Downer said the suggestion of new oilfields could pose problems as it "played into sensitivities over the war". Mr Downer is also recorded as saying: "The Coalition has been clear there would not be blood for oil. The Australian Government said sincerely that it had not joined Coalition forces on the very basis of oil."

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http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/canberra-briefed-on-oil-deal-in-2003/2006/05/10/1146940614076.html?page=fullpage#

[struggle4progress]

1. "Operation Iraqi Liberation"

[BlueEyedSon]

2. wow, that spells...

[prolesunited]

3. Unfortunately, there are far too many who don't care

We need the oil. They have it, and we're entitled to take it by any means necessary.

[Peace Patriot]

6. I don't agree that people don't care. All available evidence points the

other way--that people care a lot. But they are disempowered, and, above all, DISENFRANCHISED. Also, decisions about cars, freeways, oil--all taken out of the hands of the people. People are literally trapped in their cars. They have no other transportation, mostly. They have to work where there is work. They have to live where there is housing. All of it has been deisigned to sell oil--and to defy the interests and wishes of the American people.

People care a lot about the war, about the rich bilking the poor, about injustice, about the environment--but they don't know what to do. They are only just getting the word on the rigged voting machines--because of the "Iron Curtain" over this news. There is a great and determined grass roots movement to defeat the machines, nationwide. THIS is what we can DO. We MUST restore TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS, and elections run by the public, not by private BUSHITE corporations behind a veil of secrecy.

We must get back our right to vote! It is the mechanism by which we exercise our sovereignty as a people. Without it, we have no power.

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SOME RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN REVOLUTION II:

Hopeful signs - latest news:

California voters sue the state over Diebold:
www.VoterAction.org is suing the state of California and 18 Calif county registrars on behalf of 25 California voter/plaintiffs, on the illegal Diebold "certification" by Schwarzenegger appointee Bruce McPherson.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2180496
Seven of these counties just promised the judge they would use PAPER BALLOTS, and were dismissed from this lawsuit (4/27/06).
http://kcbs.com/pages/29285.php
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2249205

Maryland rejects Diebold:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x418263

Florida - anti-trust accusations against Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia, re: heroic Florida election official Ion Sancho:
(FLA AG subpoenas the companies)
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,110192,00.html
http://www.tbo.com/news/politics/MGBKSY8W8LE.html
(info & discussion)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2183630

Utah county clerk fights back!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x419226

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More resources for American Revolution II:

www.votersunite.org (MythBreakers - easy primer on electronic voting--one of the myths is that HAVA requires electronic voting; it does not.)
www.UScountvotes.org (statistical monitoring of '06 and '08 elections--they need donations)


(Activist sites with links to state activist groups or info)
www.votetrustusa.org (news of this great movement from around the country)
www.votersunited.org (good general info, and state links)
www.verifiedvoting.org (great activist site)
www.solarbus.org/election/index.shtml (fab compendium of all election info)

www.freepress.org (devoted to election reform)
www.bradblog.com (also great, and devoted to election reform)
www.TruthIsAll.net (analysis of the 2004 election)* :patriot: :applause: :patriot:
www.votepa.us (well-organized local group of citizen activists in Pennsylvania, where important legal issues are at stake, including state's rights over election systems)
Provisions of the PA lawsuit:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x423739

The Voter Confidence Resolution
http://tinyurl.com/rlnr2 (“We Do Not Consent”)
http://guvwurld.blogspot.com (GuvWurld blog main page)
http://tinyurl.com/amryg (Voter Confidence Resolution

www.debrabowen.com (Calif Senator running for Sec of State to reform election system)
www.johnbonifaz.com (running for Massachusetts Sec of State on strong election reform and antiwar platform)

*Some tributes to TruthIsAll, who is very ill:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x417007
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x417231
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x675477

Congressional bills:

Russ Holt's HR 550 requires a real paper ballot, bans secret software in "voting machines", and has more than 170 co-sponsors, but the audit required is too weak, it promotes electronic voting and centralized power, and the secret software might be permitted to continue in the central tabulators (the bill is not clear). To sign the HR 550 petition: http://www.rushholt.com/petition.html
At lot of discussion at DU of the loopholes/pitfalls in HR 550:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x422926
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x421136
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=422967&mesg_id=422967
(Note: Senate Bill-SB 330 and House-HR704 simply require a "voter verified paper audit trail" (VVPAT), which may be best for the moment.)


Also of interest:

Michael Collins (Autorank)'s searing election reform article for New Zealand's Scoop.com
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x971363

Bob Koehler (-- four recent election reform initiatives in Ohio, predicted to win by 60/40 votes, flipped over, on election day, into 60/40 LOSSES!--the biggest flipover we've seen yet; the election theft machines and their masters are now dictating election policy! Title: "Poll Shock" 11/24/05)
http://commonwonders.com/archives/col321.htm

Bob Koehler's latest: "Trust us: Take this box and stuff it" (3/16/06)
http://commonwonders.com/archives/col337.htm
More Koehler:
www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/subcategory.jsp?file=20051124ctnbk-a.txt&catid=1824&code=ctnbk

Amaryllis (Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia lavish lobbying of election officials - Beverly Hilton, Aug. '05)
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x380340

HOWARD DEAN remarks on electronic voting machines 04/06
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x994507

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Throw Diebold, ES&S and ALL election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW!

:think: :patriot: :woohoo: :patriot: :think:

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"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it." --Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. Some people (too many) just don't get it - Iraq is not really about oil

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Iraq is to Russia and China what Cuba was to the USA in 1961

The USA is creating missile bases right in Russia and China's back yard.

I'd bet they have nuclear armed subs in the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf already.

Saddam had underground facilities that extended from Saddam Airport to Baghdad - we haven't heard SQUAT about that -

wanna know why?

Cuz the USA will pretend they don't exist and use it for themselves

Anyone remember a wee squeak of a blurb about access doors under the airport? and the roads and bunkers that entered into one or more of Saddam's palaces ?- I do - and it disappeared offa the MSM's news(radar) real quick

Sumthing to think about

Gotta remember

The USA stole the German scientist's wizardry to finish creating the bomb

Haven't changed strategy one wee bit methinks

And adopted Adolf's attitude toward humanity, and the idea of a "supreme" race . .

(sigh)

[Veronica.Franco]

5. Trident Subs ...

THERE are always Nuclear subs out there... this is nothing new ... each battle group ... each aircraft carrier is escorted by a Trident Sub ... standard op ... On 9-11 the Carl Vincen Battle Group was escorted into the Indian Ocean by the USS Keywest that left out of Pearl in late August ... they went BACK to Japan and picked up a load of MARINES and returned within 24 hours to dog-paddle for a month waiting for the coalition to build ...

[0007]

7. At least the Aussies are up front when they talk about strong

arm robbery.