Should Bush Have Attacked Himself On March 19, 2003?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

Yesterday, (Oct. 7) Bush used the Duelfer report to come up with a new argument to justify the invasion of Iraq, based on the fact that Saddam was taking illegal kickbacks selling oil in the oil-for-food program and planning to use the money to make WMD in the future:

"...WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) and his vice president conceded Thursday in the clearest terms yet that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) had no weapons of mass destruction, even as they tried to shift the Iraq (news - web sites) war debate to a new issue - whether the invasion was justified because Saddam was abusing a U.N. oil-for-food program..."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20041007/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq_weapons_7

I propose that the single biggest enablers of this intended future WMD program were Exxon and Chevron, who were paying kickbacks beneath the table to Saddam. Bush and the Republicans exist in part because of Exxon and Chevron's campaign contributions which total in the millions. Bush therefore was in league with the co-conspirators Exxon and Chevron who were providing the money to Saddam for the supposed future intended WMD program that Bush feels Saddam was thinking about.


MOST OF IRAQ'S OIL BEFORE OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM WAS BEING CONSUMED BY THE US

From an ABC News article of July 20, 2002, here is a report on the fact that most of Saddam's oil was going to the US:

"...An authoritative Iraqi source says that as much as 90 percent of the actual amount of Iraq's estimated 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) are going to U.S. Gulf coast refineries.

"Most of Iraq's oil exports in July are destined to the U.S., with a few going to Europe," reported the authoritative oil journal Middle East Economic Survey.

There's such demand for Iraqi crude in the United States, the report says, that Saddam is banking on it to mitigate the Bush administration's enmity toward his dictatorship in Iraq, and therefore, any attempts to oust him..."

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/iraq010720_cooley.html



AS OF 2000, ACCORDING TO THE CIA, THE US WAS BY FAR THE SINGLEST BIGGEST IMPORTER OF HUSSEIN'S OIL IN THE OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAM:

From the CIA World Fact Book as of 2000:

Iraq Exports before the Iraq war - commodities:
crude oil
Exports - partners:
US 46.2%, Italy 12.2%, France 9.6%, Spain 8.6% (2000)



EXXON AND CHEVRON ARE NOW A FOCUS OF INVESTIGATION OF THE OIL-FOR-FOOD SCANDAL AND SUBPOENAS HAVE BEEN ISSUED:

I recall seeing a report on 60 Minutes II about 3 years ago that had witnessed who told 60 Minutes that Exxon and Chevron were directly paying money to Saddam under the table, a 10% premium, for his oil with which Saddam was building palaces. Unfortunately, I can't find a transcript of that broadcast on the net. If anyone has it, I'd appreciate the web coordinates. Here's another report about the investigation underway involving Exxon and Chevron:

"...NEW YORK - ExxonMobil Corp. and ChevronTexaco Corp. confirmed that they are among companies receiving a subpoena from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York investigating alleged improprieties in the United Nation's oil-for-food program in Iraq. A spokeswoman for Exxon, Irving, Texas, said the subpoena from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York requested documents related to the program, and that 'we are responding appropriately.' A ChevronTexaco spokesman in San Ramon, Calif., (Editor: "this explains why Enron/Rockefeller desperately need Arnold Stooge-a-feller to be governor of the Caliph-fornia Reichstag" to burn the evidence!") said the company is cooperating 'to the extent that we are able.

U.S. refiners Valero Energy Corp., San Antonio, and Premcor Inc., Old Greenwich, Conn., which also are big purchasers of Iraqi oil under the U.N. program, said yesterday that they haven't received subpoenas from the U.S. Attorney's office. (Editor: "sorry, the New York Attorney General..the onLY functioning State Attorney General's Office Still Refusing to Comply With Ashcroft's Orders...is just after the "Bush-owned" Oil Giants!)

The criminal investigation adds to a number of probes into allegations that Saddam Hussein siphoned billions of dollars from the humanitarian program through a system of overcharges, bribes and kickbacks.

In 2002, The Wall Street Journal reported on a system of kickbacks established by Saddam Hussein in which intermediaries paid illegal surcharges of 20 cents to 50 cents on each barrel of Iraqi oil sold. The middlemen paid the surcharges directly to Saddam Hussein's regime, and then passed along the fees to the final buyers. U.S. refiners and oil companies purchased the majority of Iraqi oil, which was generally cheaper than other oil on the market, even with the surcharges tacked on..."

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:hY_MhOeGln0J:www.memes.org/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%26name%3DNews%26file%3Darticle%26sid%3D3187+exxon+chevron+kickbacks+iraq&hl=en



EXXON AND CHEVRON WERE AMONG THE LARGEST CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS TO THE REPUBLICANS IN BOTH 2000 AND 2004:

Exxon/Mobil and Chevron/Texaco were among the top Republican Party contriburors in 2004:
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.asp?Ind=E01

And in 2000, Exxon and Chevron combined contributed about $2.5 million to the Republicans:
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.asp?Ind=E01&Cycle=2000

[Lisa]

1. maybe that's what's causing the bruises!

Poor Georgie knows that he has to go after people who've been helping the bad guys -- even if he might be one of them -- so he's been brutally interrogating himself.

[shraby]

2. Maybe that's why the U.S. companies

are blacked out in the report.

[mark11727]

3. Why not... he was constantly bombed till he was 40...!