Raymond wrote:

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year
ago."
---- Bernard Berenson

Could be Bushler's epitaph.

TY for posting this extremely informative article.

For the Archive.

"If you want to rule the world, you need to control oil. All the oil.
Anywhere."

It was for oil that Americans went to Vietnam just like it was for oil
that we are in Iraq.

The American government claimed it was because of the Communist
ideology Nonsense. It was for oil that put Americans into Vietnam just
like it was for oil that we are in Iraq.

The Communism idelogy had nothing tio do with Vietnam. That was the
excuse used on you poorly informed Americans to justify invading Nam.
America went into Vietnam for the same reason we are in Iraq---- for
oil. WE DIE FOR OIL !

The American oil companies (i.e. the American government) knew about
the vast oil supplies off of the coast of Vietnam since the late 1940s
and early 1950s and were determined to find a way to drill for it.

In 1945, Vietnam was still a colony of the French. Laurence
Rockefeller, it appears, had given the extensive store of weapons to
Ho Chi Minh with the hope that Vietnam would drive out the French so
that Standard Oil would be able to take over the as yet undeveloped
offshore fields. In 1954, Vietnamese General Giap finally defeated and
drove out the French at Dien Bien Phu with weaponry provided by the
U.S. However, Ho Chi Minh reneged on the deal since he could read too,
and he was well aware of the Hoover resource report and knew there was
a vast supply of oil off the Vietnamese coast.

In the 1950's a method of undersea oil exploration was perfected which
used small explosions deep in the water and then recorded the sound
echoes bouncing off the various layers of rock below. The surveyor
could then determine the exact location of the arched salt domes which
hold the accumulated oil beneath them. But if this method were used
off the Vietnam coast on property Standard Oil didn't own or have the
rights to, the Vietnamese, the Chinese, the Japanese and probably even
the French would quickly run to the United Nations and complain that
America was stealing the oil, and that would shut down the operation.

In 1964, after Vietnam was divided into North and South, and the
contrived Gulf of Tonkin incident, several U.S. aircraft carriers were
stationed offshore of Vietnam and the 'war' was started. Every day jet
planes would take off from the carriers, bomb locations in North and
South Vietnam, and then using normal military procedure when returning
would dump their unsafe or unused bombs in the ocean before landing
back on the carriers. Safe ordnance drop zones were designated for
this purpose away from the carriers.

Even close-up observers would only notice many small explosions
occurring daily in the waters of the South China Sea and thought it
was only part of the 'war.' The U.S. Navy carriers had begun Operation
Linebacker One, and Standard Oil had begun its ten year oil survey of
the seabed off of Vietnam. And the Vietnamese, Chinese and everybody
else around, including the Americans, were none the wiser. The oil
survey hardly cost Standard Oil a nickel, the U.S. taxpayers paid for
it.

So twenty years later and 57,000 Americans and half a million
Vietnamese dead, Standard Oil had enough data and the war in Vietnam
could end. Nelson Rockefeller's personal assistant, Henry Kissinger,
represented the U.S. at the Vietnam/Paris Peace talks and won a Nobel
Peace Prize in the bargain.

After the dust had settled from the war, Vietnam divided their
offshore coastal area into numerous oil lots and allowed foreign
companies to bid on the lots, with the proviso that Vietnam got a
percentage of the action. Norway's Statoil, British Petroleum, Royal
Dutch Shell, Russia,

Germany and Australia all won bids and began drilling within their
areas. Strange it was that none of them struck oil. However, the lots
which Standard Oil bid for and won proved to have vast oil reserves.
Their extensive undersea seismic research appears to have paid off.

Unfortunately, Big Oil's greed has not abated a whit.The American and
British rulers have a new imperialistic strategy by which they hope to
gain total control of the world's energy supplies and the strategic
Eurasian land mass. First, they sell armaments to a regime (for
example, Panama, Iraq, Yugoslavia/Kosovo, Afghan/Pakistan/Taliban
Mujaheddin, Saudi Arabia). Then, they demonize the regime to which
they sold the armaments and declare war on it (e.g. Panama Invasion,
Gulf War, UN Kosovo war, Afghanistan war, Iraq War). After the war,
they station permanent military bases in the country and use the
military bases to control the energy resources in the surrounding
countries. Current U.S. foreign policy is governed by the doctrine of
"full- spectrum dominance": the U.S. must control military, economic
and political developments everywhere.

"If you want to rule the world, you need to control oil. All the oil.
Anywhere."

Oil imperialism rests on our continued dependence on oil, which not
only threatens the future of humanity through prolonged and bloody
conflict, but through another even more insidious threat--climate
change and ecological collapse.

The real motives for the Bush administration's war in Afghanistan are
clear for all to see. The U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Wendy
Chamberlain, met with Pakistan's oil minister, Usman Aminuddin, in
January, 2002 to continue plans for the north-south pipeline,
encouraging the construction of Pakistan's Arabian Sea oil terminus
for the pipeline.

President Bush says our military will continue its presence in
Afghanistan, which means that while the U.N. forces serve as a
paramilitary police force, U.S. soldiers will be guarding the
construction of the north-south pipeline

Bush Sr.'s Gulf War in 1991 resulted in securing access to the huge
Rumaila oil field of southern Iraq by expanding the boundaries of
Kuwait after the war. This allows Kuwait, controlled by Standard Oil,
to double its prewar oil output.

Iraq, which recently discovered an oil field in its western desert, is
widely regarded as having more oil than Saudi Arabia once its deposits
are developed. Prior to the 2003 U.S. preemptive invasion of Iraq,
Iraq was producing 3 million barrels a day, funneling most of it to
world markets through a United Nations-monitored program that directed
the proceeds to food and medicine for the Iraqi people. Saddam Hussein
was still exporting his oil to Syria, which was glad to resell Iraqi
oil as if it were Syrian. The United States was one of Syria's biggest
customers, because it liked the low sulfur content of Iraqi oil,
according to Nimrod Raphaeli, publisher of the Middle East Economic
News, a Washington-based newsletter. Iraq earned $1.5 billion a year
from oil smuggling and oil sales outside UN controls, through Syria,
Turkey, and Jordan, as well as by ship down the Gulf.

Beginning in September of 2001, the Bush regime threatened to include
Iraq in its "war on terrorism." Any incursion into Iraq had to deal
with the reality that American companies, such as Cheney's Halliburton
and G.E. were making billions in Iraq by selling them goods and
services. Also, the difficulty that the eradication of the Saddam
Hussein regime would seriously compromise America's establishment of
bases on the Arabian peninsula on the pretext of protecting poor Arab
sheikhs against the Iraqi Evil Monster.

Prior to the 2003 Iraq war, Saddan was desperately trying to
ingratiate himself with the Gulf Arab Cooperation Council (GCC)
members: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United
Arab Emirates (UAE) to gain support for the lifting of the U.N.
sanctions against it. Russia, Iraq's closest U.N. Security Council
ally and a major beneficiary of contracts to purchase Iraqi oil and to
sell Iraq humanitarian supplies, was demanding "a comprehensive
settlement" of the sanctions issue, including steps leading to lifting
the military embargo against Iraq. On January 24, 2002, Russian
Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov made a formal statement that Moscow was
opposed to any U.S. military operation against Iraq.

Russia's Lukoil Oil Company and two Russian government agencies had a
23-year contract to develop Iraq's West Qurna oil field. By the terms
of the contract, Lukoil was to get one half, Iraq one quarter, and the
Russian government agencies were to get one quarter of the oil field's
667 million tons of crude, potentially a $20 billion deal. Iraq still
owed Russia at least $8 billion from the old cold war days when Russia
armed Iraq, considering it a client state. Is it any wonder that
Russia opposed Bush's war on Iraq?

But because of United Nations sanctions on Iraq, Lukoil had not pumped
a drop from West Qurna since it won drilling rights in 1997. In 2001,
Saddam gave Russia $1.3 billion in oil contracts under the United
Nations oil-for-food program that allowed Iraq to sell oil to buy
supplies to help Iraqi civilians. In September, 2001, Saddam announced
plans to award Russian companies another $40 billion in contracts as
soon as United Nations sanctions were lifted.

In February, 2002, Russia's foreign minister, Igor S. Ivanov, said
that Russia and Iraq saw eye to eye on questions of extremism and
terrorism and that the American-backed sanctions against Iraq were
counterproductive and should be lifted. He then emphasized that Russia
solidly
opposed "spreading or applying the international anti-terror operation
to any arbitrarily chosen state, including Iraq."

The 2003 Standard Oil-Bush junta war against Iraq ended all the prior
Iraqi agreements with nations such as Russia, Germany, and France. The
opposition by these Eurasian nations to Dubya's preemptive attack on
Iraq was understandable--and Dubya's rush to war with Iraq now makes
sense.

Also to be considered in any plans to extend the Standard Oil/Bush oil
imperialism is China's growing interest in supporting Middle-East
nations in their struggle against the U.S. During Jordanian King
Abdallah II's January, 2002 visit to China, Chinese President Jiang
Zemin said that China wanted stronger ties with Arab countries to help
promote peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Yeah, sure, that's
the reason China wants to put its foot into the Middle East, to
promote peace. China has supplied military weaponry to Pakistan and
may intervene if the Standard Oil/Bush imperialists continue to expand
their empire in the Middle East.

But the Standard Oil/Bush imperialists don't concern themselves with
the threat of China in the Middle East. They've seized control of
Iraq's oil and now have their eye on Syria's and Iran's oil as well.
We're now in phase two of the war on terrorism: invading countries
that Bush says harbor terrorists, with the real intent to seize those
countries' energy sources. And since U.S.-British a.k.a. Standard Oil
imperialism now--since 9/11--results in the killing of American
civilians, we can say that the next phase of the war on terrorism will
soon be at a theater near you.

The result:
http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/coffin_photos/dover/index.htm

"We don't do body counts."
Gen. Tommy Franks

SEE:
The New U.S.
-British Oil Imperialism
By Norman D. Livergood
http://www.new-enlightenment.com/impintro1.htm

SEE SOUTH CHINA SEA REGION - Spratly Islands
http:www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/schina.html

Shalom:
Netanyahu says Iraq-Israel oil line not pipe-dream
Haaretz Daily
June 20, 2003
Reuters

Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expects an oil pipeline
from Iraq to Israel to be reopened in the near future after being
closed when Israel became a state in 1948. "It won't be long when you
will see Iraqi oil flowing to Haifa," the port city in Northern
Israel, Netanyahu told a group of British investors, declining to give
a timetable:

"It is just a matter of time until the pipeline is reconstituted and
Iraqi oil will flow to the Mediterranean."

http://www.endgame.org/oilwarlinks-old.html