Reply #12: The Oil Wars have ALREADY begun

[scottxyz]

Afghanistan and Iraq.

Afghanistan was really about Unocal's desire to build a pipeline and the Taliban's refusal to let them.

Bush Sr was negotiating with the Taliban way back. The Bush dynasty broke with Afghanistan before 9/11, when they told them "We can carpet you with gold - or carpet you with bombs."

The Iraq War started because they have 11% of the oil reserves, they were starting to price them in Euros, and the Bush dynasty wanted to control that area.

The "Bush II" article at http://www.copvcia.com/

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/013004_in_your_face.html

has the best analysis of the Bush dynasty long-term geopolitical strategy in the Middle East.

60% of the world's recoverable oil is in a “golden” triangle running from Mosul in northern Iraq, to the Straits of Hormuz, to an oil field in Saudi Arabia 75 miles in from the coast, just west of Qatar, then back up to Mosul. Sixty per cent of all the recoverable oil on the planet is an in area no larger than the state of Indiana .

Is it surprising then that the overwhelming majority of US military deployment since 9/11 is in this region? How easy would it be for the US military, already surrounding it, to occupy this area in the event that the Saudi monarchy became unstable?