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These wars are about oil, not democracy

hypocritexposer

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PARIS -- The ugly truth behind the Iraq and Afghanistan wars finally has emerged.

Four major western oil companies, Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP and Total are about to sign U.S.-brokered no-bid contracts to begin exploiting Iraq's oil fields. Saddam Hussein had kicked these firms out three decades ago when he nationalized Iraq's oil industry. The U.S.-installed Baghdad regime is welcoming them back.

Iraq is getting back the same oil companies that used to exploit it when it was a British colony.

As former fed chairman Alan Greenspan recently admitted, the Iraq war was all about oil. The invasion was about SUV's, not democracy.

Afghanistan just signed a major deal to launch a long-planned, 1,680-km pipeline project expected to cost $8 billion. If completed, the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline (TAPI) will export gas and later oil from the Caspian basin to Pakistan's coast where tankers will transport it to the West.

The Caspian basin located under the Central Asian states of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakkstan, holds an estimated 300 trillion cubic feet of gas and 100-200 billion barrels of oil. Securing the world's last remaining known energy El Dorado is a strategic priority for the western powers.

But there are only two practical ways to get gas and oil out of land-locked Central Asia to the sea: Through Iran, or through Afghanistan to Pakistan. Iran is taboo for Washington. That leaves Pakistan, but to get there, the planned pipeline must cross western Afghanistan, including the cities of Herat and Kandahar.

PIPELINE DEAL

In 1998, the Afghan anti-Communist movement Taliban and a western oil consortium led by the U.S. firm Unocal signed a major pipeline deal. Unocal lavished money and attention on the Taliban, flew a senior delegation to Texas, and hired a minor Afghan official, Hamid Karzai.

Enter Osama bin Laden. He advised the unworldly Taliban leaders to reject the U.S. deal and got them to accept a better offer from an Argentine consortium. Washington was furious and, according to some accounts, threatened the Taliban with war.

In early 2001, six or seven months before 9/11, Washington made the decision to invade Afghanistan, overthrow the Taliban, and install a client regime that would build the energy pipelines. But Washington still kept sending money to the Taliban until four months before 9/11 in an effort to keep it "on side" for possible use in a war against China.

The 9/11 attacks, about which the Taliban knew nothing, supplied the pretext to invade Afghanistan. The initial U.S. operation had the legitimate objective of wiping out Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida. But after its 300 members fled to Pakistan, the U.S. stayed on, built bases -- which just happened to be adjacent to the planned pipeline route -- and installed former Unocal "consultant" Hamid Karzai as leader.

Washington disguised its energy geopolitics by claiming the Afghan occupation was to fight "Islamic terrorism," liberate women, build schools and promote democracy. Ironically, the Soviets made exactly the same claims when they occupied Afghanistan from 1979-1989. The Iraq cover story was weapons of mass destruction and democracy.

Work will begin on the TAPI once Taliban forces are cleared from the pipeline route by U.S., Canadian and NATO forces. As American analyst Kevin Phillips writes, the U.S. military and its allies have become an "energy protection force."

ADDED BENEFIT

From Washington's viewpoint, the TAPI deal has the added benefit of scuttling another proposed pipeline project that would have delivered Iranian gas and oil to Pakistan and India.

India's energy needs are expected to triple over the next decade. Delhi, which has its own designs on Afghanistan, is cock-a-hoop over the new pipeline plan.

Russia, by contrast, is grumpy, having hoped to monopolize Central Asian energy exports.

Energy is more important than blood in our modern world. The U.S. is a great power with massive energy needs. Domination of oil is a pillar of America's world power. Let's be realistic. Afghanistan and Iraq are about oil, nothing else. [/quote]

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Margolis_Eric/2008/06/22/5953041-sun.php
 
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Anonymous

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PARIS -- The ugly truth behind the Iraq and Afghanistan wars finally has emerged.

Four major western oil companies, Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP and Total are about to sign U.S.-brokered no-bid contracts to begin exploiting Iraq's oil fields. Saddam Hussein had kicked these firms out three decades ago when he nationalized Iraq's oil industry. The U.S.-installed Baghdad regime is welcoming them back.

Iraq is getting back the same oil companies that used to exploit it when it was a British colony.

As former fed chairman Alan Greenspan recently admitted, the Iraq war was all about oil. The invasion was about SUV's, not democracy.

And both Treasury Secretary O'Neill and National Security Advisor Clarke said that King George had folks drawing up his plans to invade Iraq 10 days after he took office- long before 9/11-- and probably before he ever heard of Osama Bin Laden... :roll: :(


Yep- as time goes on- facts play out- and the former insiders speak out, much more of the crooked sell out of Americans by this Administration will become known...This is what you get when you allow policy (energy policy) to be fomulated behind closed doors- with no oversight....

First it was O'Neill, then Clarke and Powell, Greenspan, and now McClellan and many many military men and women that are coming out with the systematic policy of lies, deceit, deception, law breaking, and secretive nature that permeated thru every move this White House did...

If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad
-- Major General Smedley Butler
Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.
-- Major General Smedley Butler
 

Mike

Well-known member
Blood for Oil:
The Quest for Fuel in World War II First published in
Command:
January-February 1993

by Michael Antonucci
The legendary German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel once wrote: "The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters before the shooting begins.".

Students of military history tend to pay lip service to the importance of logistics, preferring to read about tanks and artillery, mass and maneuver, attack and counterattack. The reasons for that bias are easy to understand. There is no obvious drama in examining supply lines, and it is easier and simpler to believe wars are always won on battlefields.

For instance, millions of pages have been written about the tactics and strategies of World War II, but relatively little about how almost every major decision of that conflict was conditioned by the need for one commodity without which no modern army can operate - oil.

The leaders of every nation involved in World War II were aware of how crucial oil supplies were to their war plans. The importance of oil had become apparent during the First World War. As armies became more mechanized, the need for secure sources of fuel and lubricants became the sine qua non for military operations. French diplomat Henri Berenger was right when as early as 1921 he explained that, in the next war: "He who owns the oil will own the world, for he will rule the sea by means of the heavy oils, the air by means of the ultra-refined fuels, and the land means of gasoline and the illuminating oils."

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We know that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor over the oil in Indonesia.

You folks better be glad someone is looking out for your longterm best interest. You want your grandaughter to be wearing a burkha to school each morning?
 

Mrs.Greg

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If this is true and is going to happen,the US better tighten ALL borders....remember that Bin Laden lives and will be PISSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Exploitiong a countries resourse is like raping the women of the country your supposed to be helping :evil:
 

Mike

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Exploitiong a countries resourse is like raping the women of the country your supposed to be helping

When you pay a whore for her willing services, can you call it rape? :roll:
 

Mrs.Greg

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Mike said:
Exploiting a countries resourse is like raping the women of the country your supposed to be helping

When you pay a whore for her willing services, can you call it rape? :roll:
Seriously,why make a post if your just going to say about the lowest thing I've ever read on ranchers.
 

burnt

Well-known member
A very wealthy gentleman spent a lovely evening dancing with a charming lady who held him ever more tightly as the evening wore on. He said he could reward her handsomely if she would come spend the night with him, mentioning the fabulous sum of $10,000.

After brief consideration, she agreed.

Just before he called for the chauffeur to pick them up, he reconsidered and asked if she would come to his house if he gave her only $1000.

"Why, no", she gasped. "What do you think I am?"

"That, my dear," he replied, "we have already established. Now we are just trying to establish the price."
 
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