Enron, Seditious Conspiracy, Abu Ghraib

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What's the key?

Army Secretary Thomas White?

Donald Rumsfeld is a war criminal.

Richard Cheney is a war criminal.

Antonin Scalia is a war criminal.

They are all partners in a seditious conspiracy to wage an illegal war of aggression in Iraq. All of the crimes of the Occupation stem from this conspiracy.


Props to Nathan Newman for shining a light on Thomas White.

Links.

• Mercenaries: Told You So Edition
  
• Enron Whore: Army Secretary Thomas White
  
• The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
  
• Project for The New American Century
  

Our case against the major defendants is concerned with the Nazi master plan, not with individual barbarities and perversions which occurred independently of any central plan. The groundwork of our case must be factually authentic and constitute a well-documented history of what we are convinced was a grand, concerted pattern to incite and commit the aggressions and barbarities which have shocked the world. We must not forget that when the Nazi plans were boldly proclaimed they were so extravagant that the world refused to take them seriously. Unless we write the record of this movement with clarity and precision, we cannot blame the future if in days of peace it finds incredible the accusatory generalities uttered during the war. We must establish incredible events by credible evidence.--Justice Robert Jackson

Disputes can be resolved peacefully. Wars can be ended. Even better, they can be prevented. It takes wisdom and statesmanship on the part of political leaders. It takes patient and skilful diplomacy. But, perhaps most important of all, it requires a deep change in civil society -- the development of a culture in which statesmen and diplomats alike know what is expected of them. They have to know that, in the eyes of their fellow citizens, the ultimate crime is not to give away some real or imaginary national interest. The ultimate crime is to miss the chance for peace, and so condemn your people to the unutterable misery of war.--Kofi Annan

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1. The hits just keep on coming

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2. Thomas White Thomas White Thomas White

How to appreciate the criminality of it. Look at government and law from the perspective of your average sociopathic ceo, say, Ken Lay. What do rules and regulations mean from this point of view? They are mere obstacles to the free conduct of business. Geneva Protocols? Surely there must be some way around all that nonsense.

Abu Ghraib is for all intents and purposes a subsidary of Enron and the massive fraud that company represents.

Thomas White. War criminal.

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3. Job of US Army: "Procuring the world's oil"

As Sec of Army, the traitor White wanted to privatize the army support system. It's been a real money maker for the well-connected. ENRON was in line, but they went broke first.

Ha ha ha ha. The Pentagon was on to this turd so fast, it made his Cayman Island bank account spin.

Global Economy
US: Procuring the world's oil

By Michael Klare

When first assuming office in early 2001, President George W Bush's top foreign policy priority was not to prevent terrorism or to curb the spread of weapons of mass destruction - or any of the other goals he espoused later that year following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Rather, it was to increase the flow of petroleum from suppliers abroad to US markets. In the months before he became president, the United States had experienced severe oil and natural gas shortages in many parts of the country, along with periodic electrical power blackouts in California. In addition, oil imports rose to more than 50 percent of total consumption for the first time in history, provoking great anxiety about the security of the country's long-term energy supply. Bush asserted that addressing the nation's "energy crisis" was his most important task as president.

He and his advisers considered the oil supply essential to the health and profitability of leading US industries. They reasoned that any energy shortages could have severe and pervasive economic repercussions on businesses in automobiles, airlines, construction, petrochemicals, trucking and agriculture. They deemed petroleum especially critical to the economy because it is the source of two-fifths' of the total US energy supply - more than any other source - and because it provides most of the nation's transportation fuel. They also were cognizant of petroleum's crucial national security role as the power for the vast array of tanks, planes, helicopters and ships that constitute the backbone of the US war machine.

"America faces a major energy supply crisis over the next two decades," Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham told a National Energy Summit on March 19, 2001. "The failure to meet this challenge will threaten our nation's economic prosperity, compromise our national security, and literally alter the way we lead our lives."

The energy turmoil of 2000-2001 prompted Bush to establish the National Energy Policy Development Group (NEPDG), a task force of senior government representatives charged with developing a long-range plan to meet US energy requirements. To head this group, Bush picked his closest political adviser, Vice President Dick Cheney. A Republican stalwart and a former secretary of defense, Cheney had served as chairman and chief executive officer of Halliburton Co, an oilfield services firm, before joining the Bush campaign in 2000. As such, Cheney availed himself of top executives of energy firms, such as Enron Corp, for advice on major issues.

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/FD27Dj02.html

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4. there it is

"Whether or not the administration consciously linked energy with its security policy, Bush undeniably prioritized the enhancement of US power projection at the same time he endorsed increased dependence on oil from unstable areas."

We have Cheney (ibid) and Wolfowitz ("beaurocratic reasons," "the country floats on a sea of oil") explicitly making the link. I noticed at the time of the "sea of oil" comment that, amid the ferocious spin to clarify exactly how Wolfowitz didn't admit that the cabalistas had ordered the invasion of Iraq in order to steal their oil, foreign news media were all over the oil angle, and even "legitimate," normal stories about the flow of oil were being suppressed in the US press. Well, that perception could result from a number of factors, a noise factor for instance, or a rah-rah factor, which is understandable given that millions of Americans suddenly knew somebody over in Iraq. But the difference was striking, and the impression that the story of Gulf oil was being deliberately buried stuck with me.