NP? The word from the CIA: it's the oil, stupid

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

Look --- leverage is leverage, and oil is oil. 
Is the "real reason" France opposes US action in Iraq that they've got
oil interests with the present Iraqi regime? You can more easily make
that argument based on this quote.

Mark
(Ducking and covering  ;(


--- Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com> wrote:
> http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/22/1032055034013.html
> 
> [...] France and Russia have oil companies and interests in Iraq.
> They
> should be told that if they are of assistance in moving Iraq towards
> decent
> government, we'll do the best we can to ensure that the new
> government and
> American companies will work with them. If they throw their lot with
> Saddam, it will be difficult to the point of impossible to persuade
> the new
> Iraq government to work with them. Former CIA director James Woolsey,
> quoted in The Washington Post, September 15, 2002. So there you have
> it.
> The Bush administration may be telling the world that the reason the
> UN
> Security Council has to approve an allied attack on Iraq is because
> of
> Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capability, but the real reason
> France
> and Russia are being told to get on board the US military bandwagon
> is
> Iraq's oil reserves. [...]


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