Cheney had Iraq in sights two years ago (UK Telegraph)

[Nambe]

Telegraph Co. UK Ltd

Documents released under America's Freedom of Information Act reveal that an energy task force led by vice-president Dick Cheney was examining Iraq's oil assets two years before the latest war began.

The papers were obtained after a long battle with the White House by Judicial Watch, a conservative legal charity that opposes government secrecy and which is suing for the dealings of the task force to be made public.

The emergence of the documents could fuel claims that America's war in Iraq had as much to do with oil as national security. It also indicates that the Bush administration is beginning to lose the battle to keep its internal workings secret. ---

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[are_we_united_yet]

1. Ohhhhh the wheels on the bus

[lcordero]

2. Ooooohhh

I see what's going on. Richard Perle is trying to deflect blame from himself. Has he resigned from his Defense Policy Board position yet?

[indictrichardperle]

3. Richard Perle's paper smears Cheney

This is big....Larouche-who has been spot on(very good intel sources), says Blair and Cheney are both going to resign in scandal. I believe it.

MSNBC is going after Sneering Dick and Scooter Libby in a BIG way.

[indepat]

6. Say it isn't so, say it isn't so, please, oh please, tell me it isn't

so.

[Dudley_DUright]

12. Only as the chair

As far as I know, he is still on the board.

[LauraK]

4. This is no way to treat a poodle. First the BBC, now the Telegraph.

Poodle's going to have to spin his tail off.

[Spazito]

5. Well, what do ya know.......

the drips are becoming streams and the "dam" put up by Bush and the cabal is crumbling! Gotta love it! Go Brits!

[corarose]

7. A Led Zeppelin song is playing in my head right now

When I Levey breaks we have no place to go.

[young_at_heart]

8. Why wasn't this report in my paper today?

I wonder if it made any American paper? Why not?

[kskiska]

9. I've been wondering the same thing

Very little in the media about the acquisition of these energy papers. Should be a huge story after the battle to keep them secret.

[TeeYiYi]

10. I saw this on NOW with Bill Moyers last Friday night. . .

http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_klayman.html
http://www.judicialwatch.org/071703.b_PR.shtml

TYY

[TeeYiYi]

11. Maps and charts of Iraqi oil fields:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/071703.c_.shtml

TYY