It's Not About Oil. Yeh, Right !
While Bush has really been on Saddam's case since he arrived back in D.C. in September, he'd been having a half million barrels of Iraqi oil shipped to the U.S. each day. Then we lost 1.5 million barrels of oil per day due to the oil strike in Venezuela. Bush picked up some of the slack in December by halting deposits into our national strategic reserve of 700 million barrels, with the possibility of drawing some out to cover another portion of the loss. Apart from the long-term plan of gaining political control ("hegemony," in weasel-speak) over the Middle East and protecting Israel, Bush's reason for attacking Iraq is to get its oil, as we have indicated all along. As a Condi biz buddy, Chevron chief exec Ken Deer, said five years ago, "Iraq possesses huge reserves of oil and gas - reserves I'd love Chevron to have access to." Of course, since oil's not the reason Bush is giving to our citizens or to the U.N. for an Iraq attack, it would not have been a good idea to have much public discussion of a U.S. oil shortage at the time he was threating to invade the second most oil-rich country in the world. That would have been too obvious, right? So Bush made sure he covered the severity of the loss of Venezuelan oil by getting an extra half-million barrels of oil per day from...you're not going to believe this...IRAQ. Read the full story http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,882512,00.html. --Politex, 01.27.03
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