House of Paine

oil plots : foils and counter foils

   big oil vs the neocons ?

the mini me's friends
         proveonce  agin
   once the deals done
    '  foils of war '
  are folded up 
           and tossed in the basket 

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  well whatever

prove to me

your big kids 

   and 
read this without surprise 

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BROOKLYN, NY
 03/17/05 -- 

The Bush
administration's
plans
 for war and for Iraq's oil
before the 9/11 
 sparkied
a serious policy battle
between neo-cons and Big Oil "


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" there were two conflicting plans
 neo-conservatives at the
Pentagon, on one side,
 versus a combination of "Big
Oil" executives 
and US State Department pragmatists

"Big Oil" appears to have won"

 "The latest plan,
 was  drafted by 
 American oil
industry consultants"

" planning began "within
weeks" of Bush's first taking office in 2001"



"LATER
  The industry-favored plan
 was pushed aside
 by a second  secret plan
 drafted just before 
the invasion
in 2003
 this plan
 called for the sell-off 
of all of Iraq's
oil fields to private interests "

" The second plan
 was crafted by neo-conservatives
intent on using Iraq's oil 
to destroy the Opec cartel
through massive increases 
in production above Opec
quotas "

" the plan
 to sell off Iraq's oil,
pushed by the US-installed 
Governing Council in 2003,
helped instigate 
the insurgency 
and attacks on US and
British occupying forces"

"Insurgents used this
 saying
 'Look, you're losing
your country, your losing your resources
 to a bunch of
wealthy billionaires 
who want to take you over 
and make
your life miserable," 

" enter
Philip Carroll
 the former CEO of Shell Oil USA
 who
took control of Iraq's oil production 
for the US
Government 
a month after the invasion

Carroll imediately 
 stalled the
sell-off scheme"

"Mr Carroll made it clear: 
"There was to be
 no privatization of Iraqi oil
resources or facilities while I was involved."

"The  successor to Mr Carroll
, a Conoco Oil
executive
 ordered up a new plan 
for a state oil
company "

" neocon heavies still claim
an opportunity 
was  missed 
when the privitization plan
was scrapped 
the plan according to the neocons
offered 
 a means to help 
the US defeat Opec"


" present plans
 obtained from the State Department
 call
 for creation of a state-owned
oil company 
the plan was drawn up 
under the guidance of Amy Jaffe
 of the James Baker Institute
in Texas.
 Former US Secretary of State Baker
 is now an
attorney. 
His law firm, Baker Botts,  represents
ExxonMobil and the Saudi Arabian government"

" the oil industry
prefers state control of Iraq's oil 
over a sell-off
because
 US oil companies are not
warm to any plan 
that would undermine Opec
prices
low  oil prices 
are bad for big corporate oil too"

" Many neo-conservatives 
are people who have
certain ideological beliefs
  International
oil companies without exception
 are very pragmatic
commercial organizations.
 They don't have a theology."

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