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There is
a major gap in your logic here. OF COURSE any major oil company in the
world would love to have access to Iraqi oil. One cannot conclude from
this wish that they have supported Bush's unilateral invasion and occupation of
Iraq.
There is
absolutely no connection between the two propositions. The desire for
access to Iraqi oil would more likely motivate big oil to work out
friendly business relationships with Saddam's regime than to invade Iraq.
Big oil has been especially worried that the invasion of Iraq might upset their
currently highly profitably business arrangements with nations like Saudi
Arabia.
Why do
you think it is that Israel and Israeli supporters have exhibited so much
hostility towards big oil over the decades? The reason is that big oil has
sought FRIENDLY relations with Arab and Muslim oil producers around the
world.
Big oil
requires a stable and friendly environment in which to extract oil
efficiently and profitably. It is far too easy for an enraged occupied
people to sabotage oil pipelines. It is impossible for any military force,
no matter how large, to protect every foot of the
pipelines.
You have
failed to respond to any of the details in the expert articles I've posted on
this subject from Anthony Sampson, Roger Burbach, Daniel Yergin and
others. Do you think they are all part of a sinister plot to protect
big oil?
The few
articles you've posted don't even support your own
argument.
You seem
to be operating more from an emotional conspiracy theory about big oil's
role in the Iraq War than from a rational analysis of the
facts.
It's
true that Dick Cheney has close ties to the oil industry. He also has
intimate and emotional ties to the neocons, and is a prominent member
of the PNAC, a prominent neocon outfit. I don't deny that the neocons
have succeeded in luring a few big oil principals into their messianic
campaign to ignite World War IV on behalf of Israel. But the oil industry
as a whole, just like the CIA and the American military establishment, has
dismissed the arguments of the neocons about the benefits of American attacks on
Arab and Muslim nations as pure bunk.
What do
you think the current war between the CIA and the neocon-controlled Bush
administration is all about? Why do you think that so many members of the
military establishment, like Anthony Zinni and Wesley Clark, have been lashing
out at the neocons who engineered the disastrous war on
Iraq?
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