‘Blood For Oil’

[American_Jihad]

The Left’s ‘Blood For Oil’ Fraud​

6/8/12 by Rick Moran

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At the height of anti-war hysteria in 2003-04, there was a weird paranoia from the left about why we invaded Iraq. There were “Cheney’s oil maps” that purported to show how we would divvy up Iraq oil among American oil companies (maps for Saudi Arabia and the UAE were also part of Cheney’s grand scheme). The maps, released as a result of an FOIA request from Judicial Watch, contain a map of Iraqi oilfields, pipelines, refineries and terminals, as well as two charts detailing Iraqi oil and gas projects, and “Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts.”

One would hope the American government had such maps — not to pinpoint the location of oil fields to take over as the left imagined, but as a necessary store of information that any government interested in Iraqi oil production would have. Scott Thompson, writing in crackpot Lyndon LaRouche’s Executive Intelligence Review, saw it differently:

Vice President Dick Cheney has been plotting the conquest of Iraq since he was Secretary of Defense in President George H.W. Bush’s Administration—a plan then considered insane aggression. Moreover, on July 17, 2003, Judicial Watch announced that Cheney’s Energy Task Force had developed a map of Iraq dated March 2001, as well as maps of the neighboring United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) and Saudi Arabia, which show that Cheney knew precisely how much the conquest of Iraq would be worth.

Lest anyone think this was an isolated interpretation of “Cheney’s maps,” a simple Google search reveals nearly 5 million results for “Cheney oil maps.”

Then there was the even weirder conspiracy theory advanced in Michael Moore’s fantasy/documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 that we went to war in Afghanistan not to oust the Taliban and kill Osama bin Laden, but to secure access for oil companies to the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline. The fact that the Taliban was enabling mass murderer bin Laden by allowing him to live and train his terrorists in their country after the horror of 9/11 apparently wasn’t enough of a reason to go to war for Moore and his paranoid followers. They saw the evil, grasping hands of oil companies wanting to profit from the natural gas pipeline that would transit through southern Afghanistan. President Bush, being a former oil company executive (he also owned the Texas Rangers baseball team at one time but strangely, Moore didn’t accuse the president of wanting to establish a pro franchise in Kabul), wanted to do his former colleagues in the industry a favor and throw out the Taliban who we broke off negotiations with after the African embassy bombings.

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The Left’s ‘Blood For Oil’ Fraud | FrontPage Magazine

 

[buckeye45_73]

Yeah they said that Bush could control oil prices, but Obama cant, they're so full of shit (answer the President cant control them directly, but he could allow more drilling and refining, lowering the price)

 

[buckeye45_73]

they're scared that corporations can fight back and unions dont have a monopoly on big money. sucks to be a democrat

 

[tjvh]

You really like to hit them when they're down, don't you? If I hear HALLIBURTON one more time, I might implode... Just like our Liberal Brothers, and Sisters have been imploding since the the Walker win in Wisconsin. As for Halliburton... WTF does a company who moves fossil fuels have to do with Politics anyway? Oh yeah... The Dick Cheney connection, and the Leftist disdain for BIG OIL... Forgetting of course, there is NO "green" Technology available that will bring "goods" to market. Last I checked, there is "still" no such thing as a VIABLE electric "Semi Truck" that would be capable of moving those "Organic" veggies from California to New Jersey.

 

[American_Jihad]

You really like to hit them when they're down, don't you? If I hear HALLIBURTON one more time, I might implode... Just like our Liberal Brothers, and Sisters have been imploding since the the Walker win in Wisconsin. As for Halliburton... WTF does a company who moves fossil fuels have to do with Politics anyway? Oh yeah... The Dick Cheney connection, and the Leftist disdain for BIG OIL... Forgetting of course, there is NO "green" Technology available that will bring "goods" to market. Last I checked, there is "still" no such thing as a VIABLE electric "Semi Truck" that would be capable of moving those "Organic" veggies from California to New Jersey.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXLu7osRBKo]Kick em when they're down - YouTube[/ame]

 

[konradv]

At least "blood for oil" would have made some sense. Bush's denial was just another indication that they didn't know what they were doing. Energy availability is in our national interest. The way a tinpot dictator trapped in his own country was treating the citizenry, isn't. That's their business. We should have been working towards a Libya situation where the populace did most of the dirty work, while we provided material, air and intelligence support.

 

[American_Jihad]

If Romney wins will code pink make a come back???​

 

[Douger]

The left eh ?
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DJ--Z3lvaQ]General Wesley Clark reveals US war plan - 2007 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Charles_Main]

At least "blood for oil" would have made some sense. Bush's denial was just another indication that they didn't know what they were doing. Energy availability is in our national interest. The way a tinpot dictator trapped in his own country was treating the citizenry, isn't. That's their business. We should have been working towards a Libya situation where the populace did most of the dirty work, while we provided material, air and intelligence support.

Exactly, what pisses me off is it ended up being for NOTHING. Thanks to Obama being Hell bent on Leaving. Place is already falling apart, and Iran's Puppet.

It was never About oil. We didn't take any fucking oil, we didn't even Get the Fucking Contracts. All we did was waste Years, Lives and Money Trying to do something that takes a Generational Commitment, on a Budget and with a Sch.

Stupid.

I said it before the War. If your going go Big, and Be ready for a Long Term Commitment. If all you are going to do is Topple Saddam, then not have the Will to stick it out for the Decades it takes to Build A Country, then you might as well have just shot Saddam and lets the Cards fall where they may. Same fucking Result, A lot less lives lost and money spent.

 

[gxnelson]

Wasn't "blood for oil" started by the World Can't Wait organization? or at least made popular?

 

[NYcarbineer]

George Bush Sr. justifies the war with Iraq, September 1990, to a joint session of Congress:


"Vital economic interests are at risk as well. Iraq itself controls some 10 percent of the world's proven oil reserves. Iraq plus Kuwait controls twice that. An Iraq permitted to swallow Kuwait would have the economic and military power, as well as the arrogance, to intimidate and coerce its neighbors -- neighbors who control the lion's share of the world's remaining oil reserves.

We cannot permit a resource so vital to be dominated by one so ruthless. And we won't."

George Bush Presidential Library and Museum :: Public Papers - 1990 - September

 

[BlindBoo]

If the chief natural resource of the Middle East were bananas, the region would not have attracted the attention of U.S.policymakers as it has for decades. Americans became interested in the oil riches of the region in the 1920s, and twoU.S. companies, Standard Oil of California and Texaco, won the first concession to explore for oil in Saudi Arabia inthe 1930s. They discovered oil there in 1938, just after Standard Oil of California found it in Bahrain. The same yearGulf Oil (along with its British partner Anglo-Persian Oil) found oil in Kuwait. During and after World War II, theregion became a primary object of U.S. foreign policy. It was then that policymakers realized that the Middle East was"a stupendous source of strategic power, and one of the greatest material prizes in world history."[4]Subsequently, as a result of cooperation between the U.S. government and several American oil companies, the UnitedStates replaced Great Britain as the chief Western power in the region.[5] In Iran and Saudi Arabia, American gainswere British (and French) losses.[6] Originally, the dominant American oil interests had had limited access to Iraqi oilonly (through the Iraq Petroleum Company, under the 1928 Red Line Agreement). In 1946, however, Standard Oil of New Jersey and Mobil Oil Corp., seeing the irresistible opportunities in Saudi Arabia, had the agreement voided.[7]When the awakening countries of the Middle East asserted control over their oil resources, the United States foundways to protect its access to the oil. Nearly everything the United States has done in the Middle East can beunderstood as contributing to the protection of its long-term access to Middle Eastern oil and, through that control,Washington's claim to world leadership.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa159.pdf

 

[occupied]

No one would give a damn about the middle east of not for oil, it is behind every bit of meddling we have done there since oil was discovered.

 

[BlindBoo]

Yeah they said that Bush could control oil prices, but Obama cant, they're so full of shit (answer the President cant control them directly, but he could allow more drilling and refining, lowering the price)

Production has increased to level not seen in over a decade.

U.S. Field Production of Crude Oil (Thousand Barrels per Day)

Year-over-year oil exploration in the U.S. is up 45.9 percent.

Rig Count: Rotary Rig Count and Workover Rig Count

Refining is not a problem. That is our refining capacity is not being taxed by US demands.

"Good Job Mr. President!"

 

[Mr. Shaman]

At the height of anti-war hysteria in 2003-04, there was a weird paranoia from the left about why we invaded Iraq.

....And, Iraq SKUNKED Halliburton, and AUCTIONED-OFF future oil-contracts, rather than allowing The DICK; Cheney to consider Iraq's oil "the spoils o' War"!!!!

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[Dr.Drock]

The lie is that democrats don't also support blood for oil.

Republicans and democrats will both happily send your children to die so that their bosses at the big oil companies can get dibs on the black gold. All these big oil companies bought off our politicians long ago, you think these geniuses making billions are idiots flushing their money down the toilet? You think that investment doesn't warrant a return?

You truly think Obama and the democrats all of a sudden had a bleeding heart for the people of Libya and the people of Uganda? You think the oil in those regions is just a weird coincidence?

 

[BlindBoo]

At least "blood for oil" would have made some sense. Bush's denial was just another indication that they didn't know what they were doing. Energy availability is in our national interest. The way a tinpot dictator trapped in his own country was treating the citizenry, isn't. That's their business. We should have been working towards a Libya situation where the populace did most of the dirty work, while we provided material, air and intelligence support.

Exactly, what pisses me off is it ended up being for NOTHING. Thanks to Obama being Hell bent on Leaving. Place is already falling apart, and Iran's Puppet.

It was never About oil. We didn't take any fucking oil, we didn't even Get the Fucking Contracts. All we did was waste Years, Lives and Money Trying to do something that takes a Generational Commitment, on a Budget and with a Sch.

Stupid.

I said it before the War. If your going go Big, and Be ready for a Long Term Commitment. If all you are going to do is Topple Saddam, then not have the Will to stick it out for the Decades it takes to Build A Country, then you might as well have just shot Saddam and lets the Cards fall where they may. Same fucking Result, A lot less lives lost and money spent.

In September 2011, administration officials said that Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta had proposed a plan that would keep 3,000 to 4,000 American troops in Iraq after a deadline for their withdrawal at year’s end, but only to continue training security forces there.

Then in October, Iraq’s leaders announced that they had agreed on the need to keep American military trainers in the country in 2012, but they declared that any remaining troops should not be granted immunity from Iraqi law, a point the United States said would be a deal breaker.

Status of Forces Agreement News - Breaking World Status of Forces Agreement News - The New York Times

We've been buy Iraq oil since 1996-97.

U.S. Imports from Iraq of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products (Thousand Barrels)

Really, the question you have to ask is if Iraq had no oil, would we have given more than two shits about them?

 

[g5000]

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That's a Photoshopped picture if I ever saw one.​

 

[American_Jihad]

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That's a Photoshopped picture if I ever saw one.​

Out of work part is...



Now that's liberal ilk...​

 

[dcbl]

If our oil wasn't under their sand, we wouldn't have this issue...

OR We could actually do something about retrieving our own resources.

Oh yeah, I forgot. producing more and creating more supply won't have any impact on prices. i know because a very smart liberal told me...