jasonr
This is so sweet if it's true...
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=36874
BOT SHOCKER: IRAQ´S BIGGEST LIE WASN´T WMD´S
IT WAS OIL!
It finally all fits: Why the U.S. went into Iraq, why there are no WMD´s being found, and what ex-President George Bush Senior may be doing in Russia - helping to negotiate oil deals and get control of gold trades as fast as the U.S. can!. Here´s the BIG PICTURE low down from the web bots:
The web bots have pick up enough snippets of traffic out of Europe, specifically Swiss banker types and financial type sources, that suggest that Saddam Hussein not only lied about having WMD´s but that more important - to the whole world - he lied about oil reserves as well!
Saddam´s motivation for lying about the WMD´s seems clear in retrospect: He lied about them to keep Iran at bay on his Northern Frontiers, to keep Syria at arms length, and to insure that the Israeli´s were held in check and the Saudis left him alone. According to the snips, relayed to me in a no-longer-confidential backgrounder with approval to release now, the amount of oil that will ultimately be recovered from Iraq may already be on the declining side of the Hubbert peak. In other words, the 3-million BPD that was being pumped before the U.S. invasion may have been all anyone would EVER get from the fields, complete with rising salt water content and worse.
This also neatly explains why the Iraqi´s went into hyper-drive and invaded Kuwait which precipitated the first Iraq war: You may recall that the Kuwaitis were slant drilling (sideways drilling) across the border. If Saddam really had gobs of oil, he would not have gone ballistic, angry yes but invasion no. As the bots have it, there wasn´t much left up north. The loss of any oil would have tipped off the big lie.
The Bush administration appears to be about to "hit the rocks" over oil in Iraq. The danger the administration faces is that if the word leaks out of the Iraq shortfall, before Bush Sr. and the Mobil/Exxon and ChevronTexaco parties can buy long term oil from Russia, the whole Western derivatives pyramid will come crashing down and our markets could be toast within 2 weeks.. Our foreign correspondent, Tim B (who is in Canada) sends this: " Not only King Gyorgyi who is in Russia striking up deals!
- See:
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/09/03/001.html.