June 12, 2007

All US officials that have visited Iraq asked the Iraqi government to pass the oil act, from extremist Vice-President Dick Cheney to the moderate Robert Gates. On the other hand, all Iraqi officials that have visited the US, from President Jalal Talabani and downward, listened to the same demand. President George Bush and the Democratic-controlled Congress disagreed over everything except the Iraqi oil when they considered passing the oil act a sign of progress in Iraq.

I heard the Americans had gone to Iraq to spread democracy there and then export it to the neighbors. But the project of democracy was quickly forgotten and the original objective, i.e. Iraq's oil, remained. The US greed has reached an extent to wage a war where one million Iraqis are killed to satisfy the US consumers' lust for oil.

I have written two articles about the Iraqi oil law and, weeks on, I am still receiving e-mails and comments on them from the readers, as well as some additional researches. When I was in Amman recently, a friend gave me a study named 'Remarks about the 2007 Iraqi Oil and Gas Draft Law' by Dr. Malek Douhan al-Hassan. The study discussed the articles and provisions of the law and proposed some specific amendments.

I am not an oil expert who has the ability to compare and choose the best options. Yet, I am an expert with the US politics and know that the Bush/Cheney administration launched a war on Iraq for completely made up reasons. It devastated the country in order to steal the oil. There are many indisputable evidences to this fact that are enough for any independent court to bring the figureheads of the administration to justice as they deserve.

The fabricated justifications of the war are too very well-known to need repetition here. Today, I will discuss the reasons for the greed for oil.

If the reader refers to Ron Suskind's book 'The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House and the Education of Paul O'Neill', he will find that the author cited the former Secretary of the Treasury as saying that the Bush administration came to power in January, 2001, and started planning for an invasion of Iraq almost immediately. O'Neill said the invasion of Iraq was "Topic A" at the very first meeting of the new National Security Council only ten days after Bush was installed. Bush is, as they say in the US, a man of oil. He failed to excavate and produce oil in Texas so he picked up Halliburton President Dick Cheney as his deputy. Halliburton has plundered the Iraqi oil after the invasion to an extent that the US investigators could not conceal its breaches with its subsidiaries.

O'Neill alone is not enough to convict the administration, in spite of the intelligences he offered, which had caused uproar at the time. I live in Britain, which is a democratic country, and know enough about its laws to win lawsuits that I have filed or that had been filed against me. When the case is as big as a felony, I have to offer what is enough to eliminate all suspicions; and I believe I have that enough.

In the second week for the Bush administration in power, a presidential executive order was issued to establish the National Energy Policy Development Group, headed by the vice-president. It was nicknamed 'Cheney's energy task force'. The task force issued a report in March, 2001, that we would have heard about but Cheney committed what seem to have been violations to the US laws. Representatives of major oil companies, i.e. parties that would benefit form any future policy, took part in the discussions.

Cheney must have known that he had violated the law by involving the oil companies he had worked with before joining the administration in the work of his team. He ferociously resisted a demand to surrender documents about the work of the task force to the Congress and public interest groups, which cited the freedom of information law.

The Judicial Watch and Sierra Club filed lawsuits. On April 1, 2004, a judge rejected the Bush administration's claim that the workers of the departments of internal affairs and energy were enjoying complete privacy. The judge ordered the government to release documents about the work of Cheney's task force. Fully aware of the crime it was cooking, the administration stubbornly appealed against the ruling until the case was referred to the mostly conservative Supreme Court. On June 24, 2004, the Supreme Court rejected the Bush administration's allegation that it had the constitutional right to withhold the documents.

The Bush administration released some documents, but I am sure that it would not release all the documents as long as the vice-president is involved. Cheney has a reputation since he was small employee in the reign of Nixon that he damages documents. He was caught, while vice-president to George Bush, transporting or tearing documents. Photos were taken of trucks leaving his office and laden with documents.
I want the reader to read the following carefully: the documents about the work of Cheney's task force released by the government have shown that there were maps of Iraqi and other Mideast oilfields, pipelines, refineries and terminals, two charts detailing various Iraqi oil and gas projects, and a March 2001 list of "Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts."

That was all in March 2001, i.e. six months before the 9/11 terrorism. The real terrorism is destroying Iraq to steal its oil. It is a kind of terrorism that justifies counterterrorism. I accuse the Bush administration of terrorism; and I am waiting for Dick Cheney and all those responsible for the Iraq tragedy to be tried. I will continue tomorrow.

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