Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq

[babsbunny]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/secret-memos-expose-link-between-oil-firms-and-invasion-of-iraq-2269610.html

By Paul Bignell

Tuesday, 19 April 2011

Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show.

Iraq's burgeoning oil industry: Click HERE to upload graphic (160k)

The papers, revealed here for the first time, raise new questions over Britain's involvement in the war, which had divided Tony Blair's cabinet and was voted through only after his claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Smirk" - xCommander AWOL (R)

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[SpiralHawk]

2. "Sneer." - xVP Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheney (R)

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Suckers. Bwaaa ha ha ha ha." - Tax-free RepubliCorps (R)

"Thank you American taxpayer suckers for paying our way to Iraq so we could rake in even more massive War Profits and therby keep on paying for Fox, and Rush, Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly and our other Chickenhawk Republicon Propaganda Puppets to keep on Suckering You. Bwaaaaa ha ha ha ha. Suckers."

- Tax-Free RepubliCorps (R)

[malaise]

3. Duh!

Why is no one in prison?

[hulka38]

5. Hugely important.

Thanks for the link. I hope many DUers read this.