"It's the Kissinger plan. I thought it had been killed, but it's back." (Iraq war is about the oil)

[JohnyCanuck]

The Thirty Year Itch

By Robert Dreyfuss

Mother Jones March/April 2003

SNIP

In the geopolitical vision driving current U.S. policy toward Iraq, the key to national security is global hegemony -- dominance over any and all potential rivals. To that end, the United States must not only be able to project its military forces anywhere, at any time. It must also control key resources, chief among them oil -- and especially Gulf oil. To the hawks who now set the tone at the White House and the Pentagon, the region is crucial not simply for its share of the U.S. oil supply (other sources have become more important over the years), but because it would allow the United States to maintain a lock on the world's energy lifeline and potentially deny access to its global competitors. The administration "believes you have to control resources in order to have access to them," says Chas Freeman, who served as U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia under the first President Bush. "They are taken with the idea that the end of the Cold War left the United States able to impose its will globally -- and that those who have the ability to shape events with power have the duty to do so. It's ideology."

SNIP

In 1975, while Akins was ambassador in Saudi Arabia, an article headlined "Seizing Arab Oil" appeared in Harper's. The author, who used the pseudonym Miles Ignotus, was identified as "a Washington-based professor and defense consultant with intimate links to high-level U.S. policymakers." The article outlined, as Akins puts it, "how we could solve all our economic and political problems by taking over the Arab oil fields bringing in Texans and Oklahomans to operate them." Simultaneously, a rash of similar stories appeared in other magazines and newspapers. "I knew that it had to have been the result of a deep background briefing," Akins says. "You don't have eight people coming up with the same screwy idea at the same time, independently.

"Then I made a fatal mistake," Akins continues. "I said on television that anyone who would propose that is either a madman, a criminal, or an agent of the Soviet Union." Soon afterward, he says, he learned that the background briefing had been conducted by his boss, then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Akins was fired later that year.

Kissinger has never acknowledged having planted the seeds for the article. But in an interview with Business Week that same year, he delivered a thinly veiled threat to the Saudis, musing about bringing oil prices down through "massive political warfare against countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran to make them risk their political stability and maybe their security if they did not cooperate."

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Ever since the oil shocks of the 1970s, the United States has steadily been accumulating military muscle in the Gulf by building bases, selling weaponry, and forging military partnerships. Now, it is poised to consolidate its might in a place that will be a fulcrum of the world's balance of power for decades to come. At a stroke, by taking control of Iraq, the Bush administration can solidify a long-running strategic design. "It's the Kissinger plan," says James Akins, a former U.S. diplomat. "I thought it had been killed, but it's back."

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/03/ma_273_01.html

Edited subject line for clarity /JC
Edited again because I spelt Iraq wrong. Dohh! /JC

[mac2]

1. The PNAC and Bilderberg Group are Kissenger.

He should be arrested for his plans under the Logan Act.

[gasperc]

2. Yep, solved alot of problems

brainiacs, this bunch

The author, who used the pseudonym Miles Ignotus, was identified as "a Washington-based professor and defense consultant with intimate links to high-level U.S. policymakers." The article outlined, as Akins puts it, "how we could solve all our economic and political problems by taking over the Arab oil fields bringing in Texans and Oklahomans to operate them."

[Karenina]

3. K&R.

[AntiFascist]

4. K&R, n/t

[DCKit]

5. Kissinger also proposed that control over the worlds staple foods...

would provide control over the world. I can't wait until "The World According to Monsanto" is available on DVD. The push to control access/ownership of fresh water resources falls along the same lines.

The World Bank and the IMF are complicit with large corporations in attempting to take control of the very basic necessities of life. Is it any wonder that the IMF and World Bank's only friends are the dictators and illegitimate governments that benefit personally from grants and loans while selling off their national resources and their people down the river?

[Karenina]

6. Well underway with the commodities "bubble."

[dysfunctional press]

7. kissinger is one of the most horrific criminals the world has ever known.

he is one sick evil fuck- on a par with dick cheney and poppy and babs bush.

[JohnyCanuck]

8. He doesn't have a high opinion of the military either.

From Chapter 14, "The Final Days" by Woodward and Bernstein:

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy (emphasis added /JC). Kissinger often took up a post outside the doorway to Haig's office and dressed him down in front of the secretaries for alleged acts of incompetence with which Haig was not even remotely involved. Once when the Air Force was authorized to resume bombing of North Vietnam, the planes did not fly on certain days because of bad weather. Kissinger assailed Haig. He complained bitterly that the generals had been screamin for the limits to be taken off but that now their pilots were afraid to go up in a little fog. The country needed generals who could win battles, Kissinger said, not good briefers like Haig.

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/06/266114.shtml

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. Kissinger is an evil fuck

Kissinger Clients lead to Enron and Cheney - 911 Cover Up Wobbles


http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpWESSEX/Documents/WATinquirychaos.htm

[spanone]

10. it's always been about oil

[NightWatcher]

11. Operation Iraqi Liberation, what does that spell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSVGy8fhMYs
David Rovics

We’ve got a situation and it calls for a solution
That upholds our domination of the planet
We’re gonna make our case and we’re gonna make it well
But if you don’t like our logic you can can it
We’ll use impeccable intelligence from any country in the world
As long as we all see eye to eye
And if we don’t find quite what we need we know what to do
Just look into the camera and lie

(Chorus)
‘Cause it’s Operation Iraqi Liberation
Tell me, what does that spell
Operation Iraqi Liberation
O – I – L

And we’ll lie about the missiles and the nuclear research
We’ll lie about uranium
We’ll build military bases and smile for reporters
As we give away bubble gum
And we’ll lie about bin Laden and his connections with the Saudis
And we’ll lie about 9-1-1
And we’ll lie about the Baathists and their connections to Al Qaeda
Because we know there’s none

(Chorus)

And we’ll lie about the North Koreans and we’ll lie about Iran
And don’t mention Israel
Keep those nuclear weapons out of this song
And it will all hold together swell
And now we’ll liberate these people, we’ll liberate their money
We’ll liberate their soil
We’ll liberate their airports, we’ll liberate their harbors
And we’ll liberate their oil