From: Pat Fallon (pfallon@ptd.net)
Date: Mon Sep 16 2002 - 20:14:37 MDT
[September 15] Washington Post:
"Although senior Bush administration officials say they have not begun to
focus on the issues involving oil and Iraq, American and foreign oil
companies have already begun maneuvering for a stake in the country's huge
proven reserves of 112 billion barrels of crude oil, the largest in the
world outside Saudi Arabia."
The competitive advantages of this war openly touted by former CIA director
R. James Woolsey:
"France and Russia have oil companies and interests in Iraq. They should be
told that if they are of assistance in moving Iraq toward decent government,
we'll do the best we can to ensure that the new government and American
companies work closely with them. If they throw in their lot with Saddam, it
will be difficult to the point of impossible to persuade the new Iraqi
government to work with them."
A U.S. invasion, we are told, would succeed in "scuttling oil deals" between
Baghdad and Russia, France and other countries.
If you guys help me jump that Iraqi dude, we can divvy up the loot.
Capitalism, naturally, will take the blame. It doesn't matter that this
isn't free market economics, but mercantilism, a kind of crony capitalism
with claws.
Above quoted from http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html
Pat Fallon
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