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‘In the Caspian Basin and beneath the deserts of Iraq, as many as 783 billion barrels of oil are waiting to be pumped. Anyone controlling that much oil stands a good chance of breaking OPEC's stranglehold overnight, and any nation seeking to dominate the world would have to go after it.

The long-held suspicions about George Bush's wars are well placed. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were not prompted by the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. They were not waged to spread democracy in the Middle East or enhance security at home. They were conceived and planned in secret long before September 11, 2001 and they were undertaken to control petroleum resources.

The "global war on terror" began as a fraud and a smokescreen and remains so today, a product of the Bush Administration's deliberate and successful distortion of public perception. The fragmented accounts in the mainstream media reflect this warping of reality, but another more accurate version of recent history is available in contemporary books and the vast information pool of the Internet. When told start to finish, the story becomes clear, the dots easier to connect.

Both appalling and masterful, the lies that led us into war and keep us there today show the people of the Bush Administration to be devious, dangerous and far from stupid.

The following is an in-depth look at the oil wars, the events leading up to them, and the players who made them possible.’

From Afghanistan To Iraq: Connecting The Dots With Oil

Do they know something we don't?

From the BBC

'Doomsday' vault design unveiled
By Mark Kinver
Science and nature reporter, BBC News

The final design for a "doomsday" vault that will house seeds from all known varieties of food crops has been unveiled by the Norwegian government.

The Svalbard International Seed Vault will be built into a mountainside on a remote island near the North Pole.

The vault aims to safeguard the world's agriculture from future catastrophes, such as nuclear war, asteroid strikes and climate change.

Construction begins in March, and the seed bank is scheduled to open in 2008.

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Gus: will they store GM seeds as well?  I hope they don't but one never knows under the influence of money...

Hypocrisy has two blades and no handle

Where was Gerald Borthwick of Stockton — (letter SMH 09/02/07 "Where were all the pro-Hicks letter writers when the Taliban, of whom he was a member, was killing thousands of innocent men, women and children?") — when the US was sponsoring the Taliban with money and weapons against their Afghani budding government that amongst its primary effort was to bring equality for women?

Sure, the Russians were (reluctantly as it came to light later on) helping this government to survive against the Taliban and its sponsor the US, but nonetheless the US helped the Taliban and its murdering hordes to exist and grow.

Willy-nilly, in the dark

Kurds killed in US 'friendly fire'          
A US air strike has killed eight Kurdish peshmerga militiamen and wounded six others in northern Iraq, Kurdish officials say, describing the incident as an apparent act of friendly fire.
 
The US military had said in a statement that US forces killed five armed men in the city of Mosul early on Friday during a raid targeting an al-Qaeda cell.
   
The men turned out to be Kurdish police officers, the statement said.
 
Kurdish officials put the casualty toll at eight killed and six wounded, and said the men were guarding a branch of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).
   
The PUK, one of two main Kurdish political parties in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, is led by Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi president and a key supporter of US efforts in Iraq.
 
Mosul lies close to the Kurdistan region. Kurdish militiamen have a presence in parts of the city.
 
Helicopter attack
 
Kabir Goran, deputy head of the PUK, said the air strike occurred around midnight on Thursday when a US helicopter attacked what he called a Kurdish peshmerga watchtower in eastern Mosul.
 
"We think they may have hit us by mistake," he said

In case of failure, blame Napoleon

Today's opinionated piece by Michael Duffy (SMH 10/02/07) is horrid... Even worse, it's a BLOODY disgrace... I could go in a long tirade and dismantle his arguments one by one, but let me say this (to paraphrase our rodent-in-chief) that in a world where most sensible people wants to be friend with each other and everyone, he blames the French for all the troubles in the Middle East, including Iraq, for trying to befriend Arabs, in a sneaky way... and in his dissertation quicksands, Duffy Duck swims back to colonial times, counter current.
Why not blame obesity in the US on people eating French fires in the same breath? So, the yanks are not trying to befriend the Arabs, either? trying to win their hearts and minds? So all that rhetoric was crap? Of course since the US keep bombing the crap out of them at the same time as they say we're trying to help you... Hu?, Ah, there two kinds of Arabs... the bad ones and the good ones.. Hum, would the Yanks deal only with the good ones while the French like only the bad ones...? Of course the Yanks only want to befriend the good Arabs for the good of humanity and of course the Yanks do not want their petrol... No... Whom are we kidding, Mr QuackQuack? Over the years the US have created and supported awful regimes, in that part of the globe — regimes that were doing the US's bidding for pumping. Rumsfeld in a handshake with Saddam, the Shah of Iran — a puppet with so many strings attached they got tangled up — and the House of Saud, which run a tight ship of despotism — no democracy there but plenty of handshakes with the US President...

Yes Duffy Ducky, when your chips are down, go for it... blame Napoleon. He won't mind.

go chicks

Dixie Chicks in Grammy blitz

The Dixie Chicks have swept the 49th Grammy awards with their hit single 'Not Ready To Make Nice', a song that includes vocal criticism of US President George W Bush.

"long-term occupation"

From the NYT

The State Department had asked the Pentagon to come up with military personnel or civilians to fill about one-third of the 350 new State Department jobs in Iraq. While the numbers involved are relatively small, the debate raised larger issues of whether the government was properly organized to carry out a long-term occupation of a country like Iraq.

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Gus: organized or not, the US administration was always planning a"long-term occupation" in Iraq. Here in a few sentences comes the real plan from the back draw of the war cabinet woodwork....

Thus all the bullshit about a short and sweet war with 5000 troops by end of year 2006 was no delusion but a fake plan to con the public away from the real war plan which is the "long-term occupation" of Iraq — no matter the situation, Rosy or crook... There's oil to be pumped.