Ray McGovern: Surprise, Surprise! Iraq War Was About Oil

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/Surprise-Surprise-Iraq-W-by-Ray-McGovern-110423-278.html

Afghanistan may be the graveyard of empires, but Iraq is home to a graveyard sense of humor. Iraqis wonder aloud whether the U.S. and Britain would have invaded Iraq if its main export had been cabbages instead of oil.

However obvious the answer, a remarkable array of American pundits and pseudo-savants have resisted giving the oil factor any pride of place among the motives behind the U.S./U.K. decision to invade Iraq in 2003. To this day, the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM) continue to play the accustomed role as government accomplice suppressing unwelcome news.

So, if you don't tune in to Amy Goodman's Democracy Now or read the British press, you will have missed the latest documentary evidence showing that Great Britain's Lords and Ladies lied about how big oil companies, like BP, lusted after Iraqi oil in the months leading up to the attack on Iraq.

Oil researcher Greg Muttitt's new book Fuel on Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq presents that evidence, since Muttitt had better luck than American counterparts in getting responses to his Freedom of Information requests.

[yurbud]

1. progressives, vote this up before the unrec'ing crew gets here.

[Lorien]

4. Done. nt

[harmonicon]

10. unrec'ed just because this was the first response

Discussing a simple feature of the message board and including no substantive comment relevant to the subject is disruptive.

[The Doctor.]

12. Petty and unnecessary.

Pointing it out is fine. No need to unrec for such a reason.

K+R to offset.

[harmonicon]

13. there's a very good reason

This is a discussion board. I want to keep off-track discussions away from the front page.

[The Doctor.]

14. I don't disagree, but I have a question...

'How is discussion over new revelations about the motivations for the invasion of Iraq "off-track" in any way?'

Do please answer that.

[harmonicon]

15. well, that might not be...

unfortunately, I never got that far, because the first response de-railed it, making it not a discussion, but one post, and then someone griping about a feature of the website.

[guruoo]

17. Takes two to tango, bubba...

The subject of response #1 didn't become a discussion
until the moment you responded to it.

[napoleon_in_rags]

2. If somebody would just correlate all the data posted on DU, all would become clear.

But we tend to forget the old data that gives context to the new data. For instance, I remember a graphic posted years ago showing the major oil facilities in Iraq, and another with the US military bases. They matched almost perfectly. The prices at the pump, the situation, the wars, its all horribly connected. truth is lost in the noise.

[The Doctor.]

11. How many people would have to spend how many lifetimes doing that?

Shit, no need for correlation. Anyone can just type in any combination of the keywords "Iraq", "Oil", "Energy Task Force", "PNAC" in the DU search and get way more info than they can handle for a week.

[Overseas]

3. K&R!

[bvar22]

5. Duh.

And so is our latest military adventure in Libya.
The MIC and their politicians have NOT told the TRUTH since WW2.



If you are not FOR the NEW Oil WAR in Libya,
then you are WITH The Communists AlQaeda Saddam The Terrorists Qaddafi!!!

[tinrobot]

6. Oil and the Military Industrial complex.

[Arctic Dave]

7. K&R.

This is so F'ing obvious. You can see the same bullshit excuses being said for Libya. Some of the people on this sight are sick with lust about killing for oil now it is amazing.

Liberation my ass.

[TatonkaJames]

8. It was always about the oil

Between an emerging Russian economy, and a ever growing Chinese population, demand for oil needs to have
a pipeline to the west for a long time. This wasn't planned ? Of course it was. Strategic sights in the Mid East
were targets long before 9/11.

[defendandprotect]

9. No oil -- no MIC -- oil is a "national security issue" -- hmmmmmm.........

[guruoo]

16. knr nt