Cheney and the Oil Bigs Planned U.S. War Policy Before 9/11

[El Nino]

Cheney and the Oil Bigs Planned U.S. War Policy Before 9/11

George Washington’s Blog | July 4, 2008

You may have heard that the Energy Task Force chaired by Dick Cheney prior to 9/11 collected maps of Iraqi oil, Saudi and United Arab Emerates fields and potential suitors for that oil. And you might have heard that the oil bigs attended the Task Force meetings.

But you probably haven’t heard that a secret document written by the National Security Council (NSC) on February 3, 2001 directed NSC staff to cooperate fully with the Energy Task Force as it considered the “melding” of two seemingly unrelated areas of policy:

“the review of operational policies towards rogue states,” such as Iraq, and “actions regarding the capture of new and existing oil and gas fields”.

It is difficult to brush off Cheney’s Energy Task Force’s examination of arab oil maps as a harmless comparison of American energy policy with known oil reserves because the NSC explicitly linked the Task Force, oil, and regime change.

Indeed, a former senior director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian affairs at the NSC said:

“if this little group was discussing geostrategic plans for oil, it puts the issue of war in the context of the captains of the oil industry sitting down with Cheney and laying grand, global plans”.

[qeuqheeg222]

those energy task force papers are still locked up in court to this day....cheney will die protecting those....

[El Nino]

House Keeping

[Paladin]

OK, this is interesting, because all the libs were screaming we only went into Iraq for its oil, and before last month, I actually thought they were full of it. And, it seemed, that the libs were wrong, because we weren't using any Iraqi oil for operations over there.

But then the the "revelation" that the big US oil companies were negotiating exclusive deals for access to iraqs oil fields, kind of makes me feel somewhat mortified, but with all the recent bs that this administration has been engaged in, it no longer surprises me. And now nino's excerpt, if validated, puts the while thing in perspective.

I hope there's a special place in hell reserved for those rotten b@stards....

[El Nino]

House Keeping

[thx1138]

Iran's oil is next.

[qeuqheeg222]

we are already at the bridge too far...they willl let the isreali's hit that shit with something an we will sit by like stooges......and remember if we send more troops to afghanistan might not really help...nobody has beat those hillbillies....mongols,limeys,ruskies and now our sorry asses..........

[tstv_lover]

we are already at the bridge too far...they willl let the isreali's hit that shit with something an we will sit by like stooges......and remember if we send more troops to afghanistan might not really help...nobody has beat those hillbillies....mongols,limeys,ruskies and now our sorry asses..........

I'm struggling to understand what the current military objective is. Osama Bin Ladan seems to have disappeared as a target, so what does military success in Afghanistan look like?

[plankton]

It's not the oil barons that are the only problem. It's the hippies that say don't drill here or don't drill there. All the while we are are buying oil from people who hate us when we could be producing our own oil. They are sanctimonious and self righteous assholes, both of them.

[trish]

American oil companies already have leases on oil rich lands which they are not drilling. Opening new offshore fields for drilling now will not have an effect on production until 2016. The new sediments need to be explored and evaluated. Platforms need to be designed and built. Wells need to be drilled. All that figures into the cost of the production. So, when those future wells start pumping will domestic prices go down? No. Why? Well one: the projected increase in production will be miniscule compared to the worldwide market. Two: unfortunately, it's the world market that determines the price.



One might wonder, why all the fuss about drilling new wells when right now we export 1.8 million barrels of crude oil, gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other refined products daily to Mexico, Canada, the Netherlands, Chile and Singapore among others. You don't see U.S. oil conglomerates suggesting we end this practice and make domestic oil available domestically. And rightly so, because that wouldn't lower the domestic prices substantially either.



What we need to be doing now is conserving our petroleum and developing alternative energy sources. If the oil in Anwr is valuable now, think how much more valuable it will be in the future…if it's still there. If we're going to use up the world's oil and we're going to continue to be the jerks and assholes of the world, shouldn't we be using up everyone else's supply first and hoarding our own?



Offshore projects and drilling in Anwr will do nothing to lower our gas prices and at the same time will deplete valuable resources uselessly…unless you consider it useful to put another "dime" in the pockets of the oil companies.