Secret US plans for Iraq's oil

[pberq]

Greg Palast scores again! While some of this is old news, there are new points here.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm

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The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq's oil before the 9/11 attacks, sparking a policy battle between neo-cons and Big Oil, BBC's Newsnight has revealed.

Two years ago today - when President George Bush announced US, British and Allied forces would begin to bomb Baghdad - protesters claimed the US had a secret plan for Iraq's oil once Saddam had been conquered.

In fact there were two conflicting plans, setting off a hidden policy war between neo-conservatives at the Pentagon, on one side, versus a combination of "Big Oil" executives and US State Department "pragmatists".

"Big Oil" appears to have won. The latest plan, obtained by Newsnight from the US State Department was, we learned, drafted with the help of American oil industry consultants.

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[FloridaPat]

1. Last week there was an article that Big Oil was responsible for

the oil wells NOT being sold off so far. They feel the supply will be more unstable if it's sold off and would rather keep it with the Iraqi government.

Should be interesting to see what this is all about.

[glitch]

2. Now I know bushco has done many, many impeachable offenses, but isn't

proof of this one truly treason?
I know when looking for what the Schiavo swarm is supposed to distract from there are many, many topics to chose from, but might having this one go mainstream BBC qualify as the topper?

[Wilms]

3. .

[newyawker99]

4. kick

[Wilms]

5. kick n/t

[lyonn]

6. "OAF of Office"

Blog by Greg Palast at gregpalast.com/blog.cfm, 3 stories from top is a really good read. Could sure use this info in our media from time to time. Palast can only work in England to speak his mind.