Courtesy of ICasualties, comes this link to Greg Palast's Report that there were actually 2 competing 'secret oil plans' for Iraq (pre-invasion, that is), one favored by the neo-cons and the other favored by the oil industy.
...there were two conflicting plans, setting off a hidden policy war between neo-conservatives at the Pentagon, on one side, versus a combination of "Big Oil" executives and US State Department "pragmatists."
"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.
Not surprisingly, this all took place before 9/11...More below
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