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Israel's pipe dream: getting oil from Iraq
Posted: Friday, September 17, 2004
Bush rejects bleak Iraq intelligence assessment
Iraq is making broad economic and political progress, the Bush administration insisted on Thursday, responding to a leaked intelligence report setting out a bleak assessment of Iraq's prospects up to the end of next year.
Dozens more die in Iraq violence
Car Bomb Hits Iraq Police Convoy; 5 Dead
Toll mounts in US assault on Falluja
Growing Consensus That Iraq Is Hopeless
The Most Important Terrorism Is ‘Ours’
Car bombing caps bloody week across Iraq
Suicide car bomb kills 13 in Baghdad
I See Brain Dead People
Lately I have found myself in the same predicament, but instead of the clinically dead, I see the brain dead. I can’t get away from these mindless zombies. Everywhere I go, they are there. The worst part is, they cannot be detected by sight, smell or touch. One way to identify them is to look for the sheepish gaze in their eyes, but the best way that I have found is to listen for the mindless tripe passing over their lips.
Israel, not Iran,
is wild card in explosive Middle East pack
US engages Africa in terror fight
The war was illegal
The declaration of the United Nations secretary-general, Kofi Annan, on the Iraq war was shocking in its simplicity. He described it for the first time as "illegal". No caveats. No equivocation. None of the ambiguity loved by diplomats, especially at UN headquarters.
Israel's pipe dream: getting oil from Iraq
Why is Israel so interested in building
an oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Haifa?
As I have already written, it appears likely that Chalabi's fall from grace is because he reneged on his agreement with the neocons to give favorable treatment to Israel in its raping of the resources of Iraq. Chalabi reneged on his agreement presumably because the people of Iraq simply wouldn't stand for the idea of a pipeline to Israel. An oil pipeline would be an obvious target of fundamentalist terrorists, both while it was being built and during the entire time it was operational. It is difficult to see how it could ever be economically viable, given the costs of protecting it and the inevitable sabotage attacks. What could Israel be thinking?
The death and disorientation of the children of Gaza
US soldiers shoot first, no questions asked
US engages Africa in terror fight
> The oil factor.
> Indeed, the other major driver of US military interest in Africa is oil.
> The US now gets about 15 percent of its oil from Africa.
> In a decade that could rise to 25 percent.
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