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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (9562)	1/5/2005 11:50:52 AM
From: Don Earl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

RE: "Peak Oil is the real connection between Iraq and 9/11" Even by the lower proven and recoverable estimates by the oil industry, there is currently over a 120 year supply at 22 million barrels per day. That assumes no new discoveries, and no effort to recover oil from less accessible sources. radford.edu The Peak Oil theory is absurd on its face. While I could go along with the idea that US reserves have been depleted, by US oil companies, to a degree that US oil companies must have access to someone else's oil to stay in business, the theory we're going to run out of oil in a few years is silly. There is no single "real" connection to the motive behind 9/11. 9/11 was such a major political and economic windfall, from so many different directions, for those behind the attacks, that it is impossible to assign a single motive. Shutting down Iraq's oil production increased oil prices by approximately $25 per barrel. Multiplied by 8 billion barrels per year, that comes to $200 billion per year in free money to the oil companies. Invading Afghanistan put another estimated $200 billion a year in heroine back on the black market for the drug cartels. I can't even begin to guess the size of windfall profits to defense contractors, but it isn't chump change. From the political side, for the Zionist elements seeking power in our government, it was a major coup. Iraq's support of Palestine has been wiped out, and as a road block to US dictatorship, the Constitution has been gutted. Not to mention the psychological impact of the resulting propaganda campaign on a huge cross section of the entire US population. IMO, it's fantastically naive to attribute a single, or prime, motive to the attacks. 9/11 was such a big win for a select group of bad guys, it's impossible to imagine them not making a grab for the gold ring once they were plugged into the system.