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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (15254)	3/3/2003 11:03:23 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

had we wanted his oil fields we would have taken them 12 years ago. For Chevron, it is not so important as to who owns the oil fields as to who runs them. In 1991 when the attack was made on Iraq the expected outcome was that army bases in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia would guarentee that the oil flowed favorably. All the oil, including Iraq's. It didn't work. The Saudi's placed too many restrictions on the bases, the Kuwaitis gave contracts for feasability studies but didn't turn the fields over to Chevron. The whole reason to not actually get Saddam at that time was to perpetuate the reasons for having the bases. It all may have been pressured out except for the ultimate fly in the ointment. Bush the elder didn't get reelected. As soon as it was apparent that Bush wouldn't win ,team Bush pulled out all the stops, and pulled out their FBI man Salem and allowed the bombing of the World Trade Center, a month into the Clinton term. This would surely end the Clinton administration and bring the focus back to the middle east. It didn't happen, Clinton didn't panic, he just caught the crooks. Well, this led to the multi-year effort to get rid of Clinton at any cost. It didn't work, not even impeachment, and so the effort moved to getting another Bush into place. That didn't work as Gore began to win and so they had to pull out all stops and use the Supreme Court to overturn the popular vote and select a Bush when they couldn't elect one. That is the 12 year history in a nutshell. They would have siezed them if they could, but they had to go to the most obviously desparate extremes that they find themselves in today. Today Junior Bush is defying the whole world, armed with bought off judicial bribes, and ultimately just killing people to get the oil. Twelve long years and hundreds of thousands of deaths later the Bush's are determined to get that oil. TP - Who can still remember 12 years past.