This is the best sounding, tightest reportage you could possibly get, IMO, on the real motivations behind the war on America Iraq. I can't add anything really, except my opinion. And my opinion is that Greg Palast deserves a Nobel prize, a Pulitzer (if he doesn't already have one) and a Medal of Honor from every organization that bestows one.
The only thing I could find interesting, I think, in terms of any possible arguments anyone (big oil, for example) might try and make against Palast's information and arguments, would be some kind of argument that he is actually in the paid service of big oil, and somehow his reporting actually works to their advantage in some way that is too deep and sinister for normal people to imagine, and that as bad as things look in terms of Bush Administration complicity in treachery after treachery -- with oil, with the war, with a bureaucratic mess of a health-care policy, with redistricting (how the hell does the likes of a Tom Delay get the privilege of a spot on Potato Head's show???), etc., etc. -- maybe Palast is going to somehow help these criminals to even greater profits and controls!!! Hmmm????
No. Palast for whatever post in a Democratic administration for which he would be best. Sec. of Energy sounds good to me. Wonder if he'd take it?
Here is the link (I hope, never put a link in before):
http://www.gregpalast.com/
And here is a taste of this must read piece:
It’s STILL The Oil:
Secret Condi Meeting on Oil Before Invasion
Four years ago this week, the tanks rolled for what President Bush originally called, "Operation Iraqi Liberation" — O.I.L.
I kid you not.
And it was four years ago that, from the White House, George Bush, declaring war, said, "I want to talk to the Iraqi people." That Dick Cheney didn’t tell Bush that Iraqis speak Arabic ... well, never mind. I expected the President to say something like, "Our troops are coming to liberate you, so don’t shoot them." Instead, Mr. Bush told, the Iraqis,
"Do not destroy oil wells."...
But now, we’ve learned that, despite protestations to the contrary, Condoleezza Rice held a secret meeting with the former Secretary-General of OPEC, Fadhil Chalabi, an Iraqi, and offered Chalabi the job of Oil Minister for Iraq. (It is well established that the President of the United States may appoint the cabinet ministers of another nation if that appointment is confirmed by the 101st Airborne.)...
Since the launch of Operation Iraqi Liberation, Halliburton stock has tripled to $64 a share — not, as some believe, because of those Iraq reconstruction contracts — peanuts for Halliburton. Cheney’s former company’s main business is "oil services." And, as one oilman complained to me, Cheney’s former company has captured a big hunk of the rise in oil prices by jacking up the charges for Halliburton drilling and piping equipment.
In other words, the war has gone exactly to plan — the Houston plan. So forget the naïve cloth-rending about a conflict gone haywire. Exxon-Mobil reported a record $10 billion profit last quarter, the largest of any corporation in history. Mission Accomplished.
Who'd have though there'd be another Chalabi involved? What a soap opera. This heinous evil administration must be removed and held accountable, IMHO. I highly encourage everyone to read the whole thing at Greg's website.