Cheney and the Oil Bigs Planned U.S. War Policy Before 9/11

George Washington’s Blog
Friday, July 4, 2008

You may have heard that the Energy Task Force chaired by Dick Cheney prior to 9/11 collected maps of Iraqi oil, Saudi and United Arab Emerates fields and potential suitors for that oil. And you might have heard that the oil bigs attended the Task Force meetings.

But you probably haven’t heard that a secret document written by the National Security Council (NSC) on February 3, 2001 directed NSC staff to cooperate fully with the Energy Task Force as it considered the “melding” of two seemingly unrelated areas of policy:

“the review of operational policies towards rogue states,” such as Iraq, and “actions regarding the capture of new and existing oil and gas fields”.

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It is difficult to brush off Cheney’s Energy Task Force’s examination of arab oil maps as a harmless comparison of American energy policy with known oil reserves because the NSC explicitly linked the Task Force, oil, and regime change.

Indeed, a former senior director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian affairs at the NSC said:

“if this little group was discussing geostrategic plans for oil, it puts the issue of war in the context of the captains of the oil industry sitting down with Cheney and laying grand, global plans”.

See also this essay.

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2 Responses to “Cheney and the Oil Bigs Planned U.S. War Policy Before 9/11”

1. will hale Says:
   July 5th, 2008 at 5:00 am

   i am not surprised at all to hear this,www.aftertheoilcrash.com
   9/11 was the pretext for the U.S. grab of oil in the middle east,and without the turning away by the media it could never have happend.
   i will say this clearly so there is no misunderstanding.
   9/11 was instigated by criminal elements within the U.S. government.
   The corporate media is complicit in keeping this from the masses.
   The war on terror does not exist except as a smoke screen to keep this oil grab secret.
   23,000,000,000 dollars have vanished from Iraq since the war began,not one person has been indicted and jailed.
   Wake up people it is not too late.
   1,000,000 dead civilians
   4700 soldiers
   Now these same criminals want to attack Iran.
   Think !
   please use critical thinking.
   You have the power to say NO !

2. Jimbo Says:
   July 7th, 2008 at 12:03 am

   “And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and [see] thou hurt not the OIL and the wine.” Rev 6:6