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To: Sam who wrote (481142)	10/9/2021 2:30:19 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 540724

They wanted to use Iraqi oil to pay for their war- If that were true then they would have captured and repaired the oil fields and they would be pumping today, just like they did in Kuwait. That statement was another red-herring to gain support from conservatives for the war (There is a lot of anti-war libertarian types). Fracking was not commercially feasible until the 1990s, but only if it didn't have to compete with existing wells on huge oceans of oil. Dick Cheney convened a meeting of major western oil companies from Feb 2001 to April 2001. The subject was how to get the US from an also ran oil producer to a major producer, and the only answer was fracking. Initially they planned to just stop production in Iran (already under sanctions) and Venezuela. After 9-11 Iraq was added to the list. Russia was the only wild-card in the plan.