http://www.negotiationtraining.com.au/articles/bush-black-gold/War with Iran = Oil + more Oil = $Billions in Profits
Iran is a big threat - economically. Iran is in direct competition with Bush's sponsoring oil companies. Along with China, Russia, and India, there are an estimated 124 publicly-traded European businesses which have forged strong oil and economic interests in Iran. This has shut out Bush's oil buddies from reaping big profits with Iran's export trade partner countries. The European Union alone gets some 40% of Iran's import spending, the majority of which is spent on Iran's energy and telecom sectors. The USA and Allies won the war in Iraq but are clearly losing the peace. Iraq, despite boasting the world's second largest oil reserves teeters on the verge of civil sectarian war as USA casualties continue to mount. The Democrats, with potential incumbent president hopefuls, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, have made it clear they want to bring the troops home. Time is quickly running out for Bush and his oil cartel sponsors to cash in on their black gold plunder. If they're going to attack Iran to secure their oil in Iraq, speed is of the essence....Iran's support of insurgents in Iraq has indirectly resulted in Bush's oil sponsors losing their political support back at home for army and private security company protection. Without this expensive protection (expensive to the USA taxpayer, but completely free to Bush's oil buddies!), Bush's oil tycoons can't continue to loot Iraq's rich oil reserves. This would mean Bush's Oil buddies (the same companies who bank rolled Bush into office in his last 2 elections) losing tens of billions in oil revenues.
Snatch and Grab - Bush and his Oil Buddies Want ALL the Toys
Iran is the 4th largest producer of oil, boasting roughly 9% of the world's total oil reserves. The Bush and Cheney duet along with their oil consortium pals want it! ...Is Bush worried that someone else will beat him to Iran's rich oil reserves? Definitely. The USA is the worlds biggest oil and gas guzzler. The USA consumes 20,030,000 barrels of oil every day. The second biggest consumer of oil is China at 6,391,000 barrels per day, and rising fast. (See how the oil guzzlers rate - Oil consumption by country) So China's negotiated oil deal with Iran locks Bush's oil Baron buddies out of the party. With total world oil consumption doubling every ten years, world oil domination will continue to loom large for Bush and his oil sponsors....An interesting detail is the fact that most of Iran's oil reserves are very near the Iraqi border. Very easy for Bush to get to. Easier still to wrestle from Iranian control when they're defending their capital (Tehran) up north. All eyes would be on the media lead (similar to the Iraqi war) uranium enrichment plant bombings and Tehran, and few foreigners would notice Iran's south western oil field jewel being snatched and plundered. So another smash and grab job could easily net Bush's oil buddies tens of billions more. Remind you of Iraq? Of course the "snatch" would be bank rolled once again by the American tax payer, and the "grab" would be suffered by the Iranians (the overwhelming majority of whom are not benefiting from their countries rich oil exports anyhow)...Many European companies have made big investments in Iran. Trade between Iran and countries such as France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Austria, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and the rest of the European Union reached more than $25.85bn in 2005. European banks have given Iran slightly less than $18 billion dollars in loan guarantees in 2006.... The USA stands to alienate many allies if the Bush administration declares war on Iran. The UN negotiations that led to the Bush administration winning support for sanctions were for these reasons long and arduous - 2 months long to be precise, and they're still going on - right now. Many concessions were made by Bush's delegation to win votes.
You can keep your Dollars
The Bush administration is trying to dissuade its European allies from conducting business with Iranian banks. European financial institutions are barred from performing financial transactions in dollars. To side step this restriction, European investors have simply switched currencies to the Euro. Since the Euro is outperforming the dollar the result has acted as an added boost for the Iranian economy, and hurt the already weak USD. Well done President Bush! ...There is no doubt the Iranians have taken sides and are playing a dangerous game of chicken with Bush's war machine. To understand why, we need to remind ourselves of recent history...The war crimes of Saddam Hussein against the Iranians throughout the 1980s is well documented. What is not well known is that these campaigns of genocide were committed with the full knowledge and support of the Regan administration. Why? Iran was backed by the then Soviet Union...There is strong evidence that Iran is supporting Shiite Militias in Iraq. Bush has backed the ruling Shiite government Only about 32% of Iraqi's are Sunni - Saddam Hussein was a Sunni. This minority Sunni's group feel exposed and betrayed. To a large extent, Iraq is experiencing a classic clash of the 2 major tribes, stirred up in part by Bush's Iraq government engineering. ...The Iranian - Iraqi border, which was previously secure under Saddam Hussein, has now become extremely porous since the Bush led invasion of Iraq. Since the invasion, a massive stockpile of armaments and terrorists have been pouring through the Iraqi borders, turning the streets of Baghdad into a blood bath war zone. It's small wonder the Iraqis want Bush's troops out. So with the Bush administration's finger being so stained with Iranian blood (past present and future), we find it ironic to hear Bush calling Iranians "Evil".
What Can YOU Do?
The world is overly dependant on 3 dirty and blood drenched commodities - oil, gas and coal. The oil companies, have in the past, seen to it that our dependancy will not be replaced with environmentally friendly energy alternatives. Imagine for a moment if you were in charge of your own power source. What would happen if politicians and far away country despots were unable to dictate the prices at the pump? Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan (which was a premeditated war allowing the much delayed construction of an oil pipeline into Western Europe) and so many other wars would lose their "fuel". So what would our tax dollars be spent on? How much more would we be able to save, instead of lining the overly heavy pockets of politicians and their oil sponsors? We would like to humbly suggest you arm yourself with more facts, facts of how you can do even more to save our planet. We can stop wars and put an end to the greenhouse gas problems through fighting public enemy number 1 - the oil and gas companies.
EXTREMELY DETAILED ANALYSIS--I TRIED TO HIT THE HIGH POINTS, AND RECOMMEND THE WHOLE ARTICLE.
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