Eager to Tap Iraq's Vast Oil Reserves, Industry Execs Suggested Invasion

TruthOut by Jason Leopold | Jul. 9, 2009 (Special Report)

"Saddam Hussein has also demonstrated a willingness to threaten to use the oil weapon and to use his own export program to manipulate oil markets. Therefore the US should conduct an immediate policy review toward Iraq including military, energy, economic and political/diplomatic assessments."

The advisory committee that helped prepare the report included Luis Giusti, a Shell Corp. non-executive director; John Manzoni, regional president of ... Full Story »

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Subjects: U.S., Politics, Business
Topics: Bush Administration, Foreign Policy, War in Iraq, Republicans, Money and Politics, Oil and Gas
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Posted by: Posted by Tanya J. Maurer - Jul 9, 2009 - 1:32 AM PDT
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Edited by: Tanya J. Maurer - Jul 9, 2009 - 1:32 AM PDT

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 by Tanya J. Maurer - Jul. 9, 2009

The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer later made another discovery: a secret NSC document dated February 3, 2001 – only two weeks after Bush took ... More »

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 by Ron Andreas - Jul. 18, 2009

Deception

The snippets that Leopold claims prove his contention, do no such thing. Read the document. It sounds like a treatise for Israeli dominance of the middle east, not at all how Leopold falsely characterizes it. This sentence sheds some light on just exactly what the concern about oil relates to: “Saddam Hussein has also demonstrated a willingness to threaten to use the oil weapon and to use his own export program to manipulate oil markets. This would display his personal ... More »

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