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To: mph who wrote (2695)	12/14/2003 12:33:09 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

The real #1 Bush-Cheney reason for invasion is still OIL. Group: Cheney Task Force Eyed on Iraq Oil By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites)'s energy task force appeared to have some interest in early 2001 in Iraq (news - web sites)'s oil industry, including which foreign companies were pursuing business there, according to documents released Friday by a private watchdog group. Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group, obtained a batch of task force-related Commerce Department (news - web sites) papers that included a detailed map of Iraq's oil fields, terminals and pipelines as well as a list entitled "Foreign Suitors of Iraqi Oilfield Contracts." The papers also included a detailed map of oil fields and pipelines in Saudi Arabia and in the United Arab Emirates and a list of oil and gas development projects in those two countries. The papers were dated early March 2001, about two months before the Cheney energy task force completed and announced its report on the administration's energy needs and future energy agenda. Judicial Watch obtained the papers as part of a lawsuit by it and the Sierra Club (news - web sites) to open to the public information used by the task force in developing President Bush (news - web sites)'s energy plan. Tom Fitton, the group's president, said he had no way to guess what interest the task force had in the information, but "it shows why it is important that we learn what was going on in the task force." story.news.yahoo.com.