- Get off it. All the carping, belly-aching
and complaining about George Bush's incompetence in Iraq, from both the
Left and now the Right, is just dead wrong.
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- On the third anniversary of the tanks
rolling over Iraq's border, most of the 59 million Homer Simpsons who voted
for Bush are beginning to doubt if his mission was accomplished.
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- But don't kid yourself -- Bush and his
co-conspirator, Dick Cheney, accomplished exactly what they set out to
do. In case you've forgotten what their real mission was, let me
remind you of White House spokesman Ari Fleisher's original announcement,
three years ago, launching of what he called,
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- "Operation
- Iraqi
- Liberation."
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- O.I.L. How droll of them, how cute.
Then, Karl Rove made the giggling boys in the White House change
it to "OIF" -- Operation Iraqi Freedom. But the 101st Airborne
wasn't sent to Basra to get its hands on Iraq's OIF.
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- "It's about oil," Robert Ebel
told me. Who is Ebel? Formerly the CIA's top oil analyst, he
was sent by the Pentagon, about a month before the invasion, to a secret
confab in London with Saddam's former oil minister to finalize the plans
for "liberating" Iraq's oil industry. In London, Bush's
emissary Ebel also instructed Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum, the man the Pentagon
would choose as post-OIF oil minister for Iraq, on the correct method of
disposing Iraq's crude.
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- And what did the USA want Iraq to do
with Iraq's oil? The answer will surprise many of you: and it is
uglier, more twisted, devilish and devious than anything imagined by the
most conspiracy-addicted blogger. The answer can be found in a 323-page
plan for Iraq's oil secretly drafted by the State Department. Our
team got a hold of a copy; how, doesn't matter. The key thing is what's
inside this thick Bush diktat: a directive to Iraqis to maintain a state
oil company that will "enhance its relationship with OPEC."
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- Enhance its relationship with OPEC???
How strange: the government of the United States ordering Iraq to
support the very OPEC oil cartel which is strangling our nation with outrageously
high prices for crude.
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- Specifically, the system ordered up by
the Bush cabal would keep a lid on Iraq's oil production -- limiting Iraq's
oil pumping to the tight quota set by Saudi Arabia and the OPEC cartel.
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- There you have it. Yes, Bush went
in for the oil -- not to get MORE of Iraq's oil, but to prevent Iraq producing
TOO MUCH of it.
- You must keep in mind who paid for George's
ranch and Dick's bunker: Big Oil. And Big Oil -- and their buck-buddies,
the Saudis -- don't make money from pumping more oil, but from pumping
LESS of it. The lower the supply, the higher the price.
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- It's Economics 101. The oil industry
is run by a cartel, OPEC, and what economists call an "oligopoly"
-- a tiny handful of operators who make more money when there's less oil,
not more of it. So, every time the "insurgents" blow up
a pipeline in Basra, every time Mad Mahmoud in Tehran threatens to cut
supply, the price of oil leaps. And Dick and George just LOVE it.
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- Dick and George didn't want more oil
from Iraq, they wanted less. I know some of you, no matter what I
write, insist that our President and his Veep are on the hunt for more
crude so you can cheaply fill your family Hummer; that somehow, these two
oil-patch babies are concerned that the price of gas in the USA is bumping
up to $3 a gallon.
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- No so, gentle souls. Three bucks
a gallon in the States (and a quid a litre in Britain) means colossal profits
for Big Oil, and that makes Dick's ticker go pitty-pat with joy. The
top oily-gopolists, the five largest oil companies, pulled in $113 billion
in profit in 2005 -- compared to a piddly $34 billion in 2002 before Operation
Iraqi Liberation. In other words, it's been a good war for Big Oil.
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- As per Plan Bush, Bahr Al-Ulum became
Iraq's occupation oil minister; the conquered nation "enhanced its
relationship with OPEC;" and the price of oil, from Clinton peace-time
to Bush war-time, shot up 317%.
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- In other words, on the third anniversary
of invasion, we can say the attack and occupation is, indeed, a Mission
Accomplished. However, it wasn't America's mission, nor the Iraqis'.
It was a Mission Accomplished for OPEC and Big Oil.
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