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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11?

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To: RMF who wrote (13696)8/18/2006 7:26:20 AM
From: Don Earl  Read Replies (1) of 20039
 
In early 2001, Cheney commissioned a think tank which published this report around April 2001:

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It's long, but the interesting stuff is near the bottom in the proposed action plan. It describes how Saddam used his "oil weapon" and made it impossible for Western Oil companies to price fix the market. You may recall at the time Western Oil companies were still reeling from prices that had gone under $12 a barrel due to a glut of oil on the market.

It's worth taking a look at the signators at the bottom of the report, which include Ken Lay of Enron, the North American President of BP, the CEO of Chevron, Henry Kissenger's law firm, top players in investment banking, etc.. Their recommendation was to use "political and other means" to gain control of Iraq's oil.

RE: "In my most Machiavellian mind I can't see how those outcomes could have been INTENDED for some all encompassing vision."

"Therefore it is necessary to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it, according to the necessity of the cause." Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
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