Text 4701, 52 rader
Skriven 2007-07-06 10:05:02 av George Pope (1:153/7715.0)
   Kommentar till text 4684 av Bob Klahn (1:10/345)
Ärende: forget Paris
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BK>  GP> This is what you think if you believe the intent was to win
BK>  GP> in Iraq, or to do anything but the long & expensive holding
BK>  GP> game going on now (just as in Viet Nam) -- the intent is to
BK>  GP> keep an expensive campaign profitable for certain
BK>  GP> GOP-supporting munitions' corporations.
BK>
BK>  There are several groups involved in getting us into Iraq. The
BK>  munitions companies are very small players. Even the
BK>  reconstruction companies are not all that big, even with
BK>  Haliburton. Their oil buisness is their lifeblood.
BK>
BK>  Oil was the key, and there were two players. The Neocons were
BK>  the main ideologues. Big oil was the main money interest. They
BK>  had opposing interests to a great extent. Big oil didn't have
BK>  that much to gain from the war. They wanted to replace Saddam,
BK>  but that could have been done with a coup. The neocons wanted to
BK>  bring down Saddam, and replace the entire Iraqi govt and
BK>  economic system. Their plan included privatizing the entire
BK>  economy, esp the oil industry.
BK>
BK>  The expected to expand Iraqi oil production far beyond OPEC
BK>  limits. Their ultimate goal was to break OPEC. That ran up
BK>  against Big Oil, who profit from OPEC's price gouging. Big oil
BK>  has the money. Big oil won. Unfortunately the prize is a war in
BK>  progress. OTOH, Big Oil doesn't care if Iraq's oil fields stay
BK>  out of production for a decade, or maybe a generation.

That makes sense as an origin, but it makes sense, too, that certain high
players with opportunism, want it to continue ongoing, forever, to keep the
profits high for munitions/recovery/etc. (think Halliburton)


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