The Commerce Department has been forced by Judicial Watch to turn over records of spring, 2001 meetings held between Dick Cheney and execs from global oil giants, records that suggest that the group decided months before September 11th that the US energy policy would center on taking control of Iraq’s oil: — BoingBoing
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In the late spring of 2001, Vice President Cheney held a series of top secret meetings with the representatives of Exxon-Mobil, Conoco, Shell and BP America for what was later called the Energy Task-force. Their job, ostensibly, was to map out America’s Energy future. Since late 2001 several public interest groups, including the very conservative Judicial Watch, sued to have the proceedings of those meetings opened to public scrutiny. In March 2002, the Commerce Department turned over a few documents from the Task-force meetings to Judicial Watch, among which was the map of Iraq’s Oil Fields, dated March 2001 (above) and a list of the existing “Foreign Suitors� for Iraq Oil. Since that time, Cheney’s office has fought fiercely (and so far, successfully), right up to the Supreme Court, to keep the proceeding secret and to keep any of the private industry officials from disclosing any information about the meetings. Since we all now know the Bush administration’s energy policy, there can be only one explanation for the extraordinary efforts Cheney has taken to keep this secret–he was discussing the potential for a takeover of Iraq’s oil with the companies that might manage the resource, even before 9/11 gave him the excuse to do it.
— “Its All About Oilâ€?-Alan Greenspan [jtaplin.wordpress.com]
jtaplin.wordpress.com has a lot of valuable links to click through for more information.
The most damaging comes out of the judical watch site @ http://www.judicialwatch.org/iraqi-oil-maps.shtml
I don’t know what else there is to this.
The attacks on 9/11/01 gave President Bush and Vice President Cheney the excuse they needed to wage war against an already victimized nation, further agravating our relations with a region we’ve been fucking with for decades.
This government, the people who rule this nation, they don’t care about us. They care about the engine. And if our lives are taken to fuel the engine, then so be it.
Get angry already, start doing something.
Demand Congressional action in to investigating WHY our nation acts the way it does.
Talk to your friends and neighbors and ask them what they think.
Ask your self what you think.
Get involved, Get Active.
Democracy only works if you participate.
Thats the only thing that will save this nation.