A Script, Not a Speech!
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In the 1977 interview of former President Nixon, David Frost had taken a defensive position, nit-picking Nixon and, with skillful questioning, brought him close to accepting responsibility for the Watergate disaster: "I gave them a sword," Nixon acknowledged, "and they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish, and if I had been in their position I'd have done the same thing."
Six months ago Alaska Governor Sarah Palin told an assembly of ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in Iraq that is was a "task that is from God."
Palin's diatribe was the apogee of hierocracy and flies in the face of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Reports on the Iraqi Pre-War Intelligence, the CIA's own Dulfer Committee Report, and Bush's own Robb-Silberman Commission which found the justifications used by the Bush administration for attacking Iraq was deliberately fabricated, not just wrong.
Governor Palin who is nearly as closely linked to the U.S. energy industry as Cheney was with Halliburton before becoming Vice President declares to ignorant God believing shills that the unprovoked invasion of Iraq was a "task that is from God."
Let's analyze Palin's proclamation against the far more real motive for the attack on Iraq. Oil!
Although its original concession of March 14, 1925 covered all of Iraq, the Iraq Petroleum Co., under the ownership of BP (23.75%), Shell (23.75%), CFP (23.75%), Exxon (11.85%), Mobil (11.85%), and Gulbenkian (5.0%), limited its production to fields constituting only one-half of 1 percent of the country's total area. Delaying tactics were employed not only in actual drilling and development, but also in conducting negotiations on such matters as pipeline rights-of-way. While such tactics ensured the limitation of supply, they were not without their dangers. If the Iraqi government learned that IPC was neither actively seeking new fields not exploiting proved and productive areas, it might withdraw or narrow IPC���¢�¯�¿�½�¯�¿�½s concession, or worse, award it to some independent willing and anxious to maximize production.
From almost the beginning of its operations IPC not only suppressed production in Iraq (as well as in nearby lands) but went to considerable lengths to conceal that fact from the Iraqi government. On June 1, 1972, Saddam nationalized all of IPC's properties in Iraq. Thus forty-five years after it had brought in its first well in Iraq and twenty five year before the original seventy-five year contract expired in 2000, the Iraq Petroleum Co. lost its rights in a land that was not only the original source of Mideast oil but remains a repository of ���¢�¯�¿�½�¯�¿�½fantastic���¢�¯�¿�½�¯�¿�½ reserves.
Today Iraq proven oil reserves eclipse 215 billion barrels of oil compared to the United States 20 billion of proven reserves worth at today's market rates over $20 trillion.
Now given these facts do you believe Palin's proclamation that the invasion of Iraq was "task that is from God," or do you subscribe to the common sense concept that it was for control of the oil?
McCain and Palin have given the Democrats a Sword. If the Democrats want to nail McCain and Palin to their cross with that sword, then they better start publicly indicting them on their support and lies about the war in Iraq.
Six months ago Alaska Governor Sarah Palin told an assembly of ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in Iraq that is was a "task that is from God."
Palin's diatribe was the apogee of hierocracy and flies in the face of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Reports on the Iraqi Pre-War Intelligence, the CIA's own Dulfer Committee Report, and Bush's own Robb-Silberman Commission which found the justifications used by the Bush administration for attacking Iraq was deliberately fabricated, not just wrong.
Governor Palin who is nearly as closely linked to the U.S. energy industry as Cheney was with Halliburton before becoming Vice President declares to ignorant God believing shills that the unprovoked invasion of Iraq was a "task that is from God."
Let's analyze Palin's proclamation against the far more real motive for the attack on Iraq. Oil!
Although its original concession of March 14, 1925 covered all of Iraq, the Iraq Petroleum Co., under the ownership of BP (23.75%), Shell (23.75%), CFP (23.75%), Exxon (11.85%), Mobil (11.85%), and Gulbenkian (5.0%), limited its production to fields constituting only one-half of 1 percent of the country's total area. Delaying tactics were employed not only in actual drilling and development, but also in conducting negotiations on such matters as pipeline rights-of-way. While such tactics ensured the limitation of supply, they were not without their dangers. If the Iraqi government learned that IPC was neither actively seeking new fields not exploiting proved and productive areas, it might withdraw or narrow IPC���¢�¯�¿�½�¯�¿�½s concession, or worse, award it to some independent willing and anxious to maximize production.
From almost the beginning of its operations IPC not only suppressed production in Iraq (as well as in nearby lands) but went to considerable lengths to conceal that fact from the Iraqi government. On June 1, 1972, Saddam nationalized all of IPC's properties in Iraq. Thus forty-five years after it had brought in its first well in Iraq and twenty five year before the original seventy-five year contract expired in 2000, the Iraq Petroleum Co. lost its rights in a land that was not only the original source of Mideast oil but remains a repository of ���¢�¯�¿�½�¯�¿�½fantastic���¢�¯�¿�½�¯�¿�½ reserves.
Today Iraq proven oil reserves eclipse 215 billion barrels of oil compared to the United States 20 billion of proven reserves worth at today's market rates over $20 trillion.
Now given these facts do you believe Palin's proclamation that the invasion of Iraq was "task that is from God," or do you subscribe to the common sense concept that it was for control of the oil?
McCain and Palin have given the Democrats a Sword. If the Democrats want to nail McCain and Palin to their cross with that sword, then they better start publicly indicting them on their support and lies about the war in Iraq.
