RACHEL MADDOW – WHY THEY DID IT

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Gary Vogler: Rolling Labs = MOBILE FOOD INSPECTION LAB = Food for Oil Program = Very Moment Gary Vogler realized there were no WMDs in Iraq.

Lots of OIL EXECS lined up for IRAQ OIL Contracts.

Feb 3, 2001 = Cheney Energy Task Force = “policies toward rogue states” + “capture of new and existing oil and gas fields” = IRAQ #1 = FIRST MONTH OF Bush Presidency.

Ron Suskind: Cheney’s Energy Task Force = Oil Execs giving a wish list to Cheney in complete secrecy.

Ron Suskind, author of The Price of Loyalty = OIL exploitation!

Provided critical insight into the events that led up to the Iraq War = Tenure of Paul O’Neill as Treasury Secretary under Bush = member of the pivotal National Security Council = Invasion of Iraq was on the agenda as early as February 2001 = 7 months before 9ll

O’Neill criticizes BUSH = Economic policies and “detachment” from the cabinet process = “a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.” = A lack of vigorous debate and sound, coherent policy on issues. = US-led invasion of Iraq was not a reaction to 9ll, but was a PLANNED campaign for OIL SPOILS since (before) Bush took office. = Regime change in Iraq FAKED War on Terrorism.

Ron Suskind’s “The One Percent Doctrine” = America’s hunt for terrorists since 9ll = Cheney said, “If there’s a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping AQ build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response. It’s not about our analysis … It’s about our response.” = The Cheney doctrine was created in November 2001 during a CIA briefing by Tenet + Condi Rice. = Cheney defined a new type of threat, a “low-probability, high-impact event”

SUSKIND = OBL wanted Bush reelected in 2004 = OBL made a video message for US Media described “Osama’s endorsement of John Kerry.”

‘Private Empire,’ Steve Coll’s Book About Exxon Mobil

CORPORATE RULE OF OLD: East India Company + Dutch East India Company = Fielded their own warships and armies, coined money and ruled territory = taken over by Britain and the Netherlands. + Cecil Rhodes’s British South Africa Company seized land.

MULTINATIONAL RULE NOW: Multinational oil companies = Similar players after oil and gas in risky places: beneath oceans, in Canadian tar sands, in underground rock formations that require “fracking” and in environmentally fragile Arctic waters = floods and droughts set in motion desperate migrations. = Exxon Mobil, “Private Empire” = Profits of $21.3 Billion/Year = One of Washington’s biggest lobbying operations on K Street with 20 former senators, representatives, legislative aides and others under contract.

Exxon Mobil’s influence in some 200 nations and territories = Own foreign policy

1999 cable from US Embassy in Chad = Exxon ignores American diplomats there.

Exxon Mobil’s foreign policy = Sometimes coincides with US and sometimes diverges = Oil executives know whoever rans Iraq will depend on technology and capital of the Exxon Mobile.

Exxon Mobil’s foreign policy NOW = $Billions in tearing up wetlands and forests to extract oil from Alberta’s tar sands = Sold to Japan or China.

Exxon Mobil has its own armies + hires others = Chad has 2,500 men in white radio-equipped SUV.’s + an intelligence operation bigger and better than the ­local CIA station = deploys its own vessels at sea to scout for pirates + In Indonesia, Mobil paid counterinsurgency forces who tortured and murdered prisoners on company property.

Exxon Mobil’s lobbying = Keeping oil and gas taxes low and regulations lax + shapes what people think on the biggest issue of our time. = CLIMATE Execs care less about Americans’ VIEWS EXCEPT when it comes to Punitive Damages from lawsuits = Subtracts $Billions from the bottom line. = University of Wisconsin professor said Exxon offered to pay him to write a “respectable academic journal article,” against punitive damages.

Brzezinski and Cater setup the idea of Middle East OIL being protected = Cheney moved that FORWARD under GHW Bush. First Gulf War was all about Sadam and protecting OIL.

In 2002 GW Bush uses 9ll and his “axis of EVIL” to fake a WAR for Oil funded predominately by Middle Class Taxpayers. = called North Korea “A regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.” + Iran “aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people’s hope for freedom.” + Bush most criticized Iraq
“Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror. The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax and nerve gas and nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens, leaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their dead children. This is a regime that agreed to international inspections, then kicked out the inspectors. This is a regime that has something to hide from the civilized world.” = Bush said, “States like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.”

The phrase = Bush speechwriter David Frum = Michael Gerson gave Frum the assignment of articulating the case for dislodging the government of Saddam Hussein in Iraq in only a few sentences for the upcoming State of the Union address. = USED FDR’s “date which will live in infamy” speech = “…we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again.” AXIS = GERMANY + JAPAN

North Korea = HAD NO OIL! IRAQ = IDEAL CANDIDATE! = FUTURE OF IRAQ = MAXIMIZE EXTRACTION OF TRILLIONS FROM THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS TO MULTINATIONAL $BILLIONAIRES!

Rumsfeld hires EXXON Executive Gary Vogler to plan for management of Iraq’s Oil Industry after US invasion by Feb 2002 – Meet in HOUSTON at KBR-Halliburton to plan Defense Department OIL scams.

BUSH = PUMPS OUT MASSIVE STREAM OF LIES TO AMERICANS ABOUT IRAQ AS A TERRORIST STATE = NOT ABOUT OIL!

MILLIONS WORLDWIDE DEMONSTRATE AGAINST INVASION OF IRAQ!

IN UK NOV 13, 2002 DOC = “IRAQ IS THE BIG OIL PROSPECT….BP ARE DESPERATE TO GET IN THERE.” WHILE BLAIR DENIES OIL IS THE ISSUE!

DEC 5, 2002 BP-GOLDMAN MET WITH US DEFENSE AND STATE DEPARTMENTS = WOLFOWITZ + RUMSFELD = 2 MONTH BEFORE THE INVASION.

BUSH GANG PLANNED OIL INVASION WELL = BUT ZERO ON MILITARY INVASION. BUSH WARNS AGAINST DAMAGING OIL FIELDS.

ARMY PROTECTS ONLY OIL RESOURCES = REST OPEN FOR LOOTING BY LOCALS = MUSEUMS + REST

L PAUL BREMMER IMPLEMENTS RAPE OF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS TAXPAYERS! NATION BUILDING SCAMS = $TRILLIONS IN FRAUD!

BREMMER = PRIVATIZES OIL INDUSTRY! = Philip Carroll, former Chairman and CEO of Fluor Corporation Retired 2002 and the former President and CEO of Shell Oil Company – retired in 1998. = Member of the board of the National Petroleum Council + Honorary life member of the American Petroleum Institute.

RADICALIZED GOP PRIVATIZATION WAS FOUGHT BY CARROLL = “NO OIL GRAB”

AFTER THE OIL = UK + POLAND = ACCESS TO OIL = FINAL GOAL SAY POLAND

ONE MONTH AND OIL IS FLOWING!

IRAQ BECAME A DISASTER FROM INVASION! = HIGHER OIL PRICES

NOW IRAQ’S EASY OIL WAS PRIVATIZED FOR THE OIL EMPIRE! #2 EXPORTER IN WORLD BEHIND SAUDI ARABIA MONARCHS!

GREENSCAM = TAKE OUT SADDAM TO KEEP OIL FLOWING TO INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD THROUGH STRAITS OF HORMUZ = US + ISRAEL GOAL!

10s of THOUSANDS of documents shows that for UK and USA the war was about IRAQ OIL and its POWER WASTING $6+ TRILLION IN MIDDLE CLASS TAXPAYER MONEY!

95% OF IRAQ GDP = OIL TODAY!

OBS]AMA PROMISES MORE DEFENSE OF OIL AND ENERGY INTERESTS!