I'm not really the best person to write this, but isn't it becoming increasingly obvious how the Bush admin works? They're not THAT smart and it's become (in my opinion) rather transparent how the Iraq situation occured. It was a plan from the start and it went something like this... I crapped out in the middle of putting together the full linkage because I felt my soul shrinking and contracting in the process and I felt I needed to stop and distract myself with other crap to stay sane.
They got in office and right away, they hatched a plan to grab some oil and kick ass and make a name for themselves in history in one swell foop. They got some bullshit academic thinktanks to legitimize their "strategy" from a geopolitical POV and then they set about on their plan for theft, profits and the Amurikkkan way.
The links are clear, the timelines work and I'm too nauseous to keep looking into this Void.
THE PLAN
Document Says Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501842.htmlAccording to the White House document, Rouse met with task force staff members on Feb. 14, 2001. On March 21, they met with Archie Dunham, who was chairman of Conoco. On April 12, according to the document, task force staff members met with Conoco official Huffman and two officials from the U.S. Oil and Gas Association, Wayne Gibbens and Alby Modiano.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_task_forceMost of the activities of the Energy Task Force have not been disclosed to the public, even though Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests (since 19 April 2001) have sought to gain access to its materials. The organisations Judicial Watch and Sierra Club launched a law suit (U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia: Judicial Watch Inc. v. Department of Energy, et al., Civil Action No. 01-0981) under the FOIA to gain access to the task force's materials. On 5 March 2002 the US Government was ordered to make a full disclosure; this has not happened, pending appeal. In the Summer of 2003 a partial disclosure of these materials was made by the Commerce Department. This resulted in the release of documents, maps, and charts, dated March 2001, of Iraq's, Saudi Arabia's and United Arab Emirates' oil fields, pipelines, refineries, tanker terminals and development projects. The Case eventually went to the Supreme Court and the ruling was to send the case back to the Court of Appeals.
THE PROVOCATION -CAUSA BELLI
(Edited to keep out of dungeon. Believe what you need to in order to stay sane if you wish.)
THE IMPLEMENTATION
Secret US plans for Iraq's oil By Greg Palast
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm"Big Oil" appears to have won. The latest plan, obtained by Newsnight from the US State Department was, we learned, drafted with the help of American oil industry consultants.
Insiders told Newsnight that planning began "within weeks" of Bush's first taking office in 2001, long before the September 11th attack on the US.
Secret sell-off plan
The industry-favoured plan was pushed aside by a secret plan, drafted just before the invasion in 2003, which called for the sell-off of all of Iraq's oil fields. The new plan was crafted by neo-conservatives intent on using Iraq's oil to destroy the Opec cartel through massive increases in production above Opec quotas.
And so on, and so on...