1 Boring Old Man

^{[it always did look like a W to me]}

• If you read the letters and documents on the Project for the New American Century’s website and substitute "oil fields" for "American interests in the Persian Gulf." the documents make more sense.
• Bush didn’t talk about going to war in the Middle East during his 2000 run for the Presidency, but he was part of that plan early on. He didn’t talk about it because he wouldn’t have gotten elected. He was talking to Paul O’niell about Iraq in his first days.
• Cheney’s Energy Commission meetings in their earliest days of their Administration with executives of the Energy Corporations was specifically about how to develop Iraqi Oil Fields once we had them.
• The Administration didn’t respond to the reports warning of Al Qaeda attacks because they were waiting for those attacks to use as provocation for their oil wars.
• We didn’t immediately go after Bin Laden and Al Qaeda because he was more useful to us on the loose than dead. His existence supported the so-called War on Terror.
• The War on Terror was a made up thing, to support and justify our war of oil aquisition.
• The trips to the U.N. were never genuine. What the U.N. inspectors found was immaterial. We weren’t really interested in W.M./D.’s, we were after oil.
• "If you’re not with us, you’re against us" means, "you had your chance to let us in on your oil reserves. You blew your chance, so here we come."
• Our war in Afghanistan was not a war of retribution, or a search for Bin Laden. It was a war of conquest [for a pipeline].
• All of the prewar intellegence was cherry picked. It did not support the war. It was a public relations campaign to hide the true motives. They had advocated "regime change" and that’s what they were after. It was essential to the oil development scheme.
• The use of contractors from Halliburton in the war effort was to get all of those oil drilling people in the country awaiting phase two, the development of the Iraqi Oil business.
• They way over-reacted to Joseph Wilson’s oped piece because his wife was involved in the prewar intelligence gathering and knew that they didn’t have the facts to support their war. The Wilsons knew the books had been cooked.
• All of the secrecy, control, and consolidation of power was to hide their motives and block anyone stopping them.
• "Stay the course" means – we’re here until we have a government that can make the oil deal we came to establish.
• Many of the people in the "Movement" didn’t know what we were up to. They were there for other reasons – protecting Israel, American Dominionists, Religious bigots, power trippers, real Conservatives, etc.
• Dick Cheney was and is the center of the whole thing.

Do I believe all these things? I’m mighty close. I’ve followed all of this business for a year and a half, and I’ve never felt like the big picture was clear. But I thought that this worst case scenario was irresponsible and without data. Lately, I’ve been thinking about the inconsistent things they’ve done along the way, things that don’t make sense, even in their peculiar way of thinking. It was always about oil makes the story make sense. I’m still musing about that in my mind. It seems too macabre to imagine, but it also now seems irresponsible not to consider it.

I haven’t felt this way since the Watergate days…

thanks for staying the course
Paul O’neill	Richard Clarke	Joseph Wilson Valerie Plame
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