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Oil and Israel Bob Dreyfuss , The Dreyfuss Report May 25, 2004 The two unmentionables about Iraq are suddenly getting mentioned. The real reasons for the attack on Iraq had nothing to do with WMDs, that ultimate red herring. The real reasons: oil and Israel. Let's take oil first. Prince Turki al -Faisal , the Saudi ambassador to the UK and no radical he, charges that the invasion of Iraq might have had something to do with what's under Iraq's sand: http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/forms/printstory.asp?section=Breaki ng&storyId=868913&tw=wn_wire_story The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was a colonial war and there were some in the United States who saw it as a means of getting their hands on Iraqi oil, a senior Saudi ambassador was quoted as saying Monday. Prince Turki al-Faisal, ambassador to Britain and Ireland, told the Irish Independent newspaper Washington's stated aims in going to war in Iraq masked a more cynical reality. "No matter how exalted the aims of the U.S. in that war, in the final analysis it was a colonial war very similar to the wars conducted by the ex-colonial powers when they went out to conquer the rest of the world ...," Prince Turki said. John Kerry, ever Mr. Cautious ("if only I can stay two points to the left of Bush I can win"), suggested that oil might have had something do with the invasion, too. Kerry, who's constantly bashing the Saudis, didn't exactly line up with Prince Turki. And he didn't exactly sound like an anti-imperialist, either. But he did suggest that oil was a factor. In a Washington Times piece entitled "Kerry hints at link between oil, Iraq war," the Times reports: http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040524-103200-9250r.htm Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry yesterday suggested that America's dependence on foreign oil is the major reason the United States went to war with Iraq. "A strong America begins at home-with energy independence from the Middle East. Let's ensure that no young American soldier has to fight and die because of our dependence on foreign oil," the Massachusetts senator said. Okay, not exactly courageous, but it's a start. Speaking of courage though, have you seen Sen. Fritz Hollings' statement that Israel, too, was a major reason for the war in Iraq? Hollings, the white-haired courtly southern gentleman, who's finally retiring and getting out of Dodge, wrote an article for the Charleston Post and Courier on May 6 (now posted on Hollings' website), noting that perhaps President Bush was motivated to attack Iraq more by his desire to protect Ariel Sharon's Israel than any other reason. Wrote Hollings : http://hollings.senate.gov/~hollings/opinion/2004506A17.html Of course there were no weapons of mass destruction. Israel's intelligence, Mossad, knows what's going on in Iraq. They are the best. They have to know. Israel's survival depends on knowing. Israel long since would have taken us to the weapons of mass destruction if there were any or if they had been removed. With Iraq no threat, why invade a sovereign country? The answer: President Bush's policy to secure Israel. Led by Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Charles Krauthammer, for years there has been a domino school of thought that the way to guarantee Israel's security is to spread democracy in the area. You don't come to town and announce your Israel policy is to invade Iraq. But George W. Bush, as stated by former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and others, started laying the groundwork to invade Iraq days after inauguration. And, without any Iraq connection to 9/11, within weeks he had the Pentagon outlining a plan to invade Iraq. For making that courageous statement, Hollings noted in a statement two weeks later that he was attacked for being anti-Semitic. Yet he went on to accuse the Project for a New American Century of developing that "domino policy for Israel," and he added that he was sticking to his guns: "That is exactly what it is. But they know how to make you tuck tail and run. Not the Senator from South Carolina. We don't run." http://hollings.senate.gov/~hollings/statements/2004521A35.html ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
