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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (426332)	7/13/2003 4:32:49 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769670

BUSH LIES DEPT.: HOW TO ROB A NATION IN THE NIGHT -- KUWAIT and The Rumailia Ali Babas jttmab, Speaking of Kuwait, here's a really interesting article that may contain an insight we won't find on CNN. The speculation is that there is a secret route being pioneered from Kuwait up to the Iraqi portion of the Rumailia oil field. floridatoday.com!NEWSROOM/peoplestoryA1172A.htm <SNIP> On May 25, while scanning the Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program images pipelined into his desktop from 450 miles in orbit, Hank Brandli skidded at a nighttime photo of Iraq. It looked familiar. But not exactly. Brandli retrieved another DMSP image he'd archived from May 3. He compared the two. The most recent photo showed a blazing corridor of light running the length of Kuwait, south to north, all the way to the Iraqi border. The image wasn't there on May 3. "It's going right up to Iraq's oil fields," says the retired Air Force colonel from his home in Palm Bay. "Maybe I'm full of s---. Maybe all they're doing is building a highway to put in McDonald's and sell hamburgers. But why go that way? I think we're in bed with Kuwait. I think we're pumping oil out of Iraq to pay for this war." That's an audacious observation. Especially considering those labyrinthine lines of exasperated motorists waiting to gas up at the fuel pumps in Baghdad. Not to mention the fact that Iraq's infrastructure officially won't be capable of exporting oil for another week or so...... "You look for patterns. Patterns tell you things," says Brandli, who has masters degrees in meteorology, aeronautics and astronautics, and the author of "Satellite Meteorology" for the Air Force's Air Weather Service in 1976. "With night photos, you can distinguish natural gas burnoff, which looks globular, from city lights. And suddenly, over just a few weeks, we've got this straight line of lights leading all the way to those beautiful wells in southeastern Iraq. "If you're building pipelines, you've got to have power, you've got to have light -- trucks and personnel and food and all sorts of support. If I had to bet, I'd say it looks like we're running Iraqi oil through Kuwait. It would make sense, because Kuwait's got its infrastructure intact." At the State Department in Washington, D.C., David Staples on the Future of Iraqi Projects desk says he doesn't know if Iraq's oil is flowing into Kuwait. He referred the query to the Defense Department. A DoD spokesman suggested contacting the Office of Coalition of Provisional Authority (OCPA) in Baghdad. OCPA was not immediately available for comment. In Indialantic, retired Air Force Col. Hyko Gayikian isn't sure what to make of Brandli's speculation. He wonders if maybe Kuwait's lights were pre-existing features that were temporarily shut down during the war. (Brandli says no, that he checked other photos prior to the March war campaign and could find no such lights.) <END SNIP> Now, I don't agree with Brandli on one part of his assessment. I doubt that the oil that is possibly flowing in a surreptitious pipeline into Kuwait is ending up as money in the U.S. Treasury to "pay for the war". I strongly suspect that if there is a pipeline, its sole purpose is to pour profits into pirates. Like the guys in charge, mebbe? That would be Kellogg, Brown & Root. Surprise, surprise. What I'd like to know is if it was KBR that provided the slant drilling equipment that was used by the Kuwaitis in the late 1980's and was one of the grievances that caused Saddam Hussein to decide to attack Kuwait.... That would be interesting.