Australia Has Oil Interest?


	Australia Has Oil Interest?

debbyski

7-6-2007 3:21 AM

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7-7-2007 6:30 PM

citizenbfk

D'uh.

It difficult to wade through the near overwhelming daily dose of lies and propaganda inflicted upon us day by day, with charade pretensions like: spreading freedom, setting up democracies, false connections to 9/11, etc. etc.

Read this: Written in 1998. Signed by: Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, Bolton, Abrams, Armitage, and Woolsey. (all to become part of the Bush Administration):http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

So, in 1998 these "neo-cons," were encouraging a war in Iraq for the sake of:
1. Oil
2. Israel
3. Fabricated fear of WMD's

A good summary, with links, is at:
http://www.irc-online.org/content/3296
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/26/moyers-on-the-neocons-and-william-kristol/

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		<B>Australians and all of us need to think what would happen if there were a premature withdrawal from Iraq</B>
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>This is thought to be the first time the Australian government has admitted any link between troop deployment in Iraq and securing energy resources.
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