On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:38:07 -0000, "Karl" <Karlolololo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
There are a thousand and one reasons for invading Iraq and the battle
against international terrorism, each one good and valid.
I hope it will never stop.
>> Go on then.
>>
>
>
>President Bush's Cabinet agreed in April 2001 that 'Iraq remains a
>destabilising influence to the flow of oil to international markets from
the
>Middle East' and because this is an unacceptable risk to the US 'military
>intervention' is necessary
>
>http://www.sundayherald.com/28285
>
>Official: US oil at the heart of Iraq crisis
>By Neil Mackay
>
>
>President Bush's Cabinet agreed in April 2001 that 'Iraq remains a
>destabilising influence to the flow of oil to international markets from
the
>Middle East' and because this is an unacceptable risk to the US 'military
>intervention' is necessary.
>Vice-president Dick Cheney, who chairs the White House Energy Policy
>Development Group, commissioned a re****t on 'energy security' from the
Baker
>Institute for Public Policy, a think-tank set up by James Baker, the
former
>US secretary of state under George Bush Snr.
>
>The re****t, Strategic Energy Policy Challenges For The 21st Century,
>concludes: 'The United States remains a prisoner of its energy dilemma.
Iraq
>remains a de- stabilising influence to ... the flow of oil to
international
>markets from the Middle East. Saddam Hussein has also demonstrated a
>willingness to threaten to use the oil weapon and to use his own ex****t
>programme to manipulate oil markets. Therefore the US should conduct an
>immediate policy review toward Iraq including military, energy, economic
and
>political/ diplomatic *****sments.
>
>'The United States should then develop an integrated strategy with key
>allies in Europe and Asia, and with key countries in the Middle East, to
>restate goals with respect to Iraqi policy and to restore a cohesive
>coalition of key allies.'
>
>Baker who delivered the recommendations to Cheney, the former chief
>executive of Texas oil firm Halliburton, was advised by Kenneth Lay, the
>disgraced former chief executive of Enron, the US energy giant which went
>bankrupt after carrying out massive accountancy fraud.
>
>The other advisers to Baker were: Luis Giusti, a Shell non-executive
>director; John Manzoni, regional president of BP and David O'Reilly,
chief
>executive of ChevronTexaco. Another name linked to the do***ent is Sheikh
>Saud Al Nasser Al Sabah, the former Kuwaiti oil minister and a fellow of
the
>Baker Institute.
>
>President Bush also has strong connections to the US oil industry and
once
>owned the oil company Spectrum 7.
>
>The Baker re****t highlights massive shortages in world oil supplies which
>now leave the US facing 'unprecedented energy price volatility' and has
led
>to recurring electricity black-outs in areas such as California.
>
>The re****t refers to the impact of fuel shortages on voters. It
recommends a
>'new and viable US energy policy central to America's domestic economy
and
>to [the] nation's security and foreign policy'.
>
>Iraq, the re****t says, 'turns its taps on and off when it has felt such
>action was in its strategic interest to do so', adding that there is a
>'possibility that Saddam Hussein may remove Iraqi oil from the market for
an
>extended period of time' in order to damage prices.
>
>The re****t also says that Cheney should integrate energy and security to
>stop 'manipulations of markets by any state', and suggests that Cheney's
>Energy Policy Group includes 'representation from the Department of
>Defence'.
>
>'Unless the United States assumes a leader****p role in the formation of
new
>rules of the game,' the re****t says, 'US firms, US consumers and the US
>government [will be left] in a weaker position.'
>
>=======
>
>also Read the article in WASHAINGTON POST titled
>
> In Iraqi War Scenario, Oil Is Key Issue
>
>U.S. Drillers Eye Huge Petroleum Pool dated September 15 2002
>
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The facts expressed here belong to everybody,
the opinions to me.
The distinction is yours to draw...
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