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"You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe."
"You take the
red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I"ll show
you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
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"Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power. These regions include Western Europe, East Asia, the territory of the former Soviet Union, and Southwest Asia.
"There are three additional aspects to this objective: First the U.S must show the leadership necessary to establish and protect a new order that holds the promise of convincing potential competitors that they need not aspire to a greater role or pursue a more aggressive posture to protect their legitimate interests. Second, in the non-defense areas, we must account sufficiently for the interests of the advanced industrial nations to discourage them from challenging our leadership or seeking to overturn the established political and economic order. Finally, we must maintain the mechanisms for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role."
- "Defense Planning Guidance for the 1994-1999 Fiscal Years (Draft)," Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and I. Lewis Libby - Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1992
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"we are witnessing a sequential war to control the largest reserves on a planet that is running out of oil."
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"The poor countries will bear most of the burden [of high oil prices]. But the United States will be in serious difficulties. There is, I fear, a strong danger of some ill-considered military intervention to try to secure oil."
- Colin Campbell, petrogeologist,
Association for the Study of Peak Oil, December 2000 - NEOCON IMPERIALISM OR APOCALYPSE NOW
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"Let's look at it simply. The most
important difference between North Korea and Iraq is that
economically, we just had no choice in Iraq. The country
swims on a sea of oil." *
"...for reasons that have a lot to do with the US government
bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could
agree on: weapons of mass destruction." |
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... "by 2010 we will need on the order of an
additional fifty million barrels a day. So where is the oil going to
come from? ... While many regions of the world offer great oil
opportunities, the Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and
the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies, even though
companies are anxious for greater access there, progress continues to be
slow." |
In short, neo-conservatism seeks U.S. military and economic domination of the world.
They envision a “New World Order”, a new era of “Enlightenment” by imposing what is termed “moral clarity and purpose” of “American exceptionalism” upon the world through forced military democratization. A war is peace doctrine, which flouts and dismantles international laws through open-ended warfare while maintaining both foreign and domestic rule. This messianic vision of an American global empire smacks of a totalitarian Orwellian super state with apocalyptic consequences for all humanity.
The president's real goal in Iraq
This war, should it come, is intended to mark the official emergence of the United States as a full-fledged global empire, seizing sole responsibility and authority as planetary policeman. It would be the culmination of a plan 10 years or more in the making, carried out by those who believe the United States must seize the opportunity for global domination, even if it means becoming the "American imperialists" that our enemies always claimed we were.Once that is understood, other mysteries solve themselves. For example, why does the administration seem unconcerned about an exit strategy from Iraq once Saddam is toppled?
Preserving Pax Americana' is a clear reference to the Roman empire, which enforced during half a millenium the 'Pax Romana' throughout the world known to the Romans. This 'imperial vision' is confirmed in its summary, which hails the coming of the 'unipolar moment' of unrivaled American power. This text, published soon after the election of president Bush II, clearly establishes the link between the vision expressed in the 1992 memo of the Wolfowitz right wing team, and the 'National Security Strategy' of president Bush II, released on September 20, 2002.
BUSH PLANNED IRAQ 'REGIME
CHANGE' BEFORE BECOMING PRESIDENT
By Neil Mackay -September 15, 2002 - Sunday Herald
A SECRET
blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his
cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime
change' even before he took power in January 2001.
The blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the creation of a
'global Pax Americana' was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice-
president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's
deputy), George W Bush's younger brother Jeb and Lewis Libby (Cheney's
chief of staff). The document, entitled Rebuilding America's Defences:
Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century, was written in
September 2000 by the neo-conservative think-tank Project for the New
American Century (PNAC).
The plan shows Bush's cabinet intended to take military
control of the Gulf region whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power.
It says: 'The United States has for decades sought to play a more
permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict
with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a
substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of
the regime of Saddam Hussein.'
Oil lust
It was a prize that the first oil presidency -- the president,
vice president and national security advisor are all former oil
execs -- lusted after long before the attacks of 9/11. The
Washington Post reported that even as the Bush transition team
prepared to take power in 2001, changing Iraq's regime and seizing
its oil were already on the table:
Early discussions among the administration's national security
"principals" -- Cheney, Powell, Tenet and national security adviser
Condoleezza Rice -- and their deputies focused on how to weaken
Hussein diplomatically. But Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz
proposed sending in the military to seize Iraq's southern oil fields
and establish the area as a foothold from which opposition groups
could overthrow Hussein.
Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told author Ron Suskind that
Dick Cheney also supported an invasion of Iraq before Sept. 11, and
the New Yorker's Jane Mayer reported on a top secret National
Security Council document dating back seven months before the terror
attacks that gave some insight into the vice president's thinking:
It directed the N.S.C. staff to cooperate fully with [Cheney's
secretive] Energy Task Force as it considered the "melding" of two
seemingly unrelated areas of policy: "the review of operational
policies towards rogue states," such as Iraq, and "actions regarding
the capture of new and existing oil and gas fields."
The Rip-off of Iraq's Oil Wealth
Control of Iraq's future
oil wealth is being handed to multinational oil companies through
long-term contracts that will cost Iraq hundreds of billions of
dollars.
'Crude Designs: The Rip-Off of Iraq's Oil Wealth' reveals that
current Iraqi oil policy will allocate the development of at least
64% of Iraq’s reserves to foreign oil companies. Iraq has the
world’s third largest oil reserves.
Figures published in the report for the first time show:
• the estimated cost to Iraq over the life of the new oil contracts
is $74 to $194 billion, compared with leaving oil development in
public hands. These sums represent between two and seven times the
current Iraqi state budget.
• the contracts would guarantee massive profits to foreign
companies, with rates of return of 42% to 162%.
The kinds of contracts that will provide these returns are known as
production sharing agreements (PSAs). PSAs have been heavily
promoted by the US government and oil majors and have the backing of
senior figures in the Iraqi Oil Ministry. Britain has also
encouraged Iraq to open its oilfields to foreign investment.
However PSAs last for 25-40 years, are usually secret and prevent
governments from later altering the terms of the contract.
The United States of oil
No administration has ever been more in bed with the energy
industry -- but does that mean Big Oil is calling Bush's shots?
The Bush administration's ties to oil and gas are as deep as an offshore well. President George W. Bush's family has been running oil companies since 1950. Vice President Dick Cheney spent the late '90s as CEO of Halliburton, the world's largest oil services company. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice sat on the board of Chevron, which graced a tanker with her name. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans was the CEO of Tom Brown Inc. -- a natural gas company with fields in Texas, Colorado and Wyoming -- for more than a decade.
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror - Video
Key Documents
PNAC: Letter to President Clinton, Jan. 26, 1998
PNAC Report: "Rebuilding America's Defenses," Sept. 2000
The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, 2002
CRUDE VISIONSHALLIBURTON WON'T BACK OFF DOING BIZ IN IRAN, DESPITE NYC PENSION CONCERNS OF TERRORISM
Associated Press: "Court Allows Suit on Cheney's Energy Panel", July 8, 2003
Mother Jones: "The War According to Halliburton", by Michael Sherer, July, 2003
AP: "Mexicans upset by move linking immigration to oil", May 11, 2003
CNN/Money: "Halliburton job bigger than thought", by Mark Gongloff and Andrew Stein, May 7, 2003
The New Yorker: "The Contractors", by Jane Mayer, April 28, 2003
CBS News: "Halliburton: All In The Family", April 27, 2003
Reuters: "Oil Better Protected Than People", April 2003
USA Today: "Bechtel Wins Huge Iraq Reconstruction Contract", April 17, 2003
New York Times: "Spoils of War", by Bob Herbertherbert, April 10, 2003
TomPaine.com: "Rumsfeld's Old Flame", by Jim Vallette, April 10, 2003
Associated Press: Halliburton Subsidiary Wins Iraqi Oil Firefighting Contract", March 26, 2003
CorpWatch: Halliburton Makes a Killing on Iraq War", by Pratap Chatterjee, March 20, 2003
CNN | Money: "Halliburton Theft Ups Terror Fears ", March 6, 2003
LewRockwell.com: "Anything For A Buck", by Lew Rockwell, November 7, 2002
MSN/Slate: "What Bush Isn't Saying About Iraq", by Michael Kinsley, October 24, 2002
The Christian Science Monitor: "Is It All About Oil?", by Peter Grier, October 16, 2002