Why the United States invaded Iraq, and now is thinking about invading Ira

[lovuian]

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/feedback/80600-3/
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The profits of five oil companies combined (American: ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Conoco, British: Shell and British Petroleum) in 2005 was 111 billion dollars. And these profits are about to go through the roof. The reason? Production can not keep-up with demand, and even if it could, there isn’t enough oil to satisfy all, at present prices. Oil companies’ valuations are based on those companies’ access to oil reserves. Iraq and Iran combined have over 20% of the world’s total proven oil reserves. Imagine what having access to those reserves will do for the valuation of American oil companies, not to mention their profits
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Currently over 60% of the world’s oil reserves are in Middle East. Four countries in the region, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and Kuwait, have over half of the world’s proven oil reserves
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But the fact is that in 15 years the North American and Asia Pacific oil reserves will be depleted. This will represent a marked reduction in oil supplies world wide. In other words within 15 years if we do not increase oil production drastically in the Middle East and elsewhere, world will face tremendous oil shortages. Increasing oil production is not that easy either. Each Oil field has an optimum production rate. If one tries to go beyond that rate and tries to sustain high production rate, one damages the oil field and thereby substantially reducing the amount of recoverable oil. This problem is well documented by the oil industry.

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Richard Perle has served in important government posts under various administrations. He was Secretary of Defence under Reagan administration and Chairman of the Defence policy Advisory Committee (2001-2003) under Bush Administration. He is also the signatory of Project for the New American Century, a think-tank institute and one of the main organisations pushing for invasion of Iran. Perle is currently a resident fellow at the conservative think-tank American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He sits also on the board of advisors of Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA).
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Douglas Faith served at Defense Department as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, under Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. Feith had previously served in the Reagan administration, starting off as Middle East specialist at the National Security Council (1981-82) and then transferring to the Defense Department where he spent two years as staff lawyer for Assistant Defense Secretary Richard Perle. He is the director of Foundation for Jewish Studies, and former advisor to Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA).





David Wurmser, Dick Cheney's Middle East adviser, was the Special Adviser to Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security (2001-2003). He is also member of Board of Directors of U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon.
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It was a done deal all along...

[bridgit]

1. peak oil...

http://desip.igc.org/malthus/conflict.html

[serryjw]

2. Perfect!

Now ADD the sinking doillar over reserve dollar going from US to other nations and you have a perfect storm....and WE are right in the middle of the eye

[bridgit]

3. yup, and a rush to the Euro and it's freaking these old turds of ours...

the hell out what to do what to do, i know...we'll destroy the world = when you can't win the game, tip over the monopoly board, small men really, small minds clearly, big fucking mess x(

[serryjw]

11. Everyone USED to want "Park Place"

Now they all want Ghawar!

[bridgit]

15. you got it...

:thumbsup:

[guruoo]

4. "...our children will sing great songs about us years from now."

"No stages," he said. "This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies.
There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do
Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq... this is entirely the wrong way to go about it.
If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and
we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war...
our children will sing great songs about us years from now."
-Richard Perle

http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/01/1559346.php

[MatrixEscape]

5. Oh yes ...

there are many, viable reasons, why Iraq is an issue. Those are the fine points that both engage and distract. They range from lies and subterfuge, to practical, to profitable for the elite.

One of the least obvious, and possibly, most important, is the image and icon that the simulation is now presenting to you in order to illicit you, (all of you on any point in a spectrum) to distract yourselves and become obsessed and engrossed, (depending on your typecast) in any dichotomy and dialect that will not only distract you, it will diminish your resources and energies in the process. Hence, you gladly participate in the spectacle offered and accomplish nothing but what is expected by the system, in the process.

The psychological impact, (as per the idea of the psychological that is injected into you as a way to separate you like any other method) is far more valuable and impactful than any other.

The simulation's system projects the scripted injections of the hypperreal and you easily accept that as reality. Even the fact that the media does not clearly report the abject horror and graphic mortality that is occurring there is a part of that program. It leaks out here and there, (they know that) and we become the children who want to know and find out, but our parents do not see the boogie man we find, or acknowledge it.

You all might see the potential here. Iraq is telling you, in a safe and distant way, what YOU ALL can expect if you do not fall in line, be good, and fall in line, with the Simulation in progress. You must NOT think outside of that and it is okay if you protest or disagree, as long as it is within the circumscribed context of familiar, yet now false, dichotomies!

There is a strategy, but it is not found by playing within the boundaries of that which has already transcended you, calculates you and your proclivities and biases, and then gives you its own stage to play on where the edges are blurred and no way out is demarcated in the compulsory game it projects on your now obsolete life of meaning, duality, and linear causality.

Welcome to the final age of digital reality for frogs in pots. Finding the strategy that defeats that system is far more than you could imagine and far outside of, and beyond the familiar sub-systems you are now spinning your wheels in and wasintg your valuable coppertop energy in.

[dysfunctional press]

6. not quite...

But the fact is that in 15 years the North American and Asia Pacific oil reserves will be depleted...

WRONG! the supply of CHEAP oil might be gone by then- but the oil shale in canada alone could last up to 100 years...it's just expensive to refine.

[bridgit]

7. and contains heavier particles, if you're good with disassembling...

the world even quicker then go for it :thumbsup:

[dysfunctional press]

8. it's not my decision.

i'm just pointing out that it's completely false to say that north american oil reserves will be completely depleted in 15 years. they won't.

personally, i find global warming to be a bigger threat to the planet in my lifetime than peak oil...and by the time we're using the oil sands to refine fuel for our cars, it'll be too late.
but, it's the course the oil companies and the military-industrial complex have chosen for us.

[bridgit]

9. fair enough...renewables now!!!

http://www.crest.org :hi:

[recoveringdittohed]

14. A new pipeline in the pipeline

It looks like the oil shale oil may be coming to a gas pump near you soon (2008). A new pipeline from Alberta to Illinois is in the planning stages.

http://www.transcanada.com/keystone/

[lovuian]

10. kick

:kick:

[Toots]

12. Ya think???

:shrug: seems I heard exactly the same thing here over three years ago.

[Jack Rabbit]

13. Perele was never Secretary of Defense

Perle was Assistant Secretary of Defense for international security policy in the Reagan administration (Wikipedia).