Greg Palast has a State Dept Document.....

[Postman]

that was written before the Bush administration declared Saddam Hussein an "immediate threat" outlining the economic reorganization of Iraq. In other words, selling off anything and everything that was state-run. This includes the OIL FIELDS.

Remember Bush's statement of Iraq's oil belong to the Iraqi people?

Like everything else that has come out of his mouth, this was bogus.

Palast also reveals why General Jay Garner was "fired" in his position as interim leader of Iraq. He announced early that "Iraq will have elections in 90 days." Apparantly Gen Jay Garner was not in the loop as far as the reorganizing of Iraqs economy because no Iraqi, if elections WERE held, would elect someone who would pass off all control of their own oil fields to the Americans, thus all elections in Iraq are "on hold" until American imperialist corporations can clean out the country of any and all state-run entities.

[newsguyatl]

1. HELL YEAH!

where are you getting this info?

i remember reading somewhere a few weeks back where palast says he'll have some info in his new book that's gonna basically "blow the lid" -- i wonder if this is it?

[arcane1]

2. sweet! I want Palast on a special one-hour Daily Show!

:toast:

[SoCalDem]

3. Klayman had that last week when he was on Bill Moyers..

That's what he finally got from the FOIA request.. and when the cour ruled in his favor, they had to turn over some of the documents..That one was one of them..

[newsguyatl]

4. anyone

got a link for this?

this is good stuff

[SoCalDem]

5. It's probably at Moyer's website.. Link here

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

[arcane1]

6. right here, download Cheney's secret documents!

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


Judicial Watch press release:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/071703.b_PR.shtml

[Postman]

8. He was just on the Rhandi Rhodes program...

Greg Palast: In this case the question was this secret plan in the State Dept, its still secret but now I’m telling you about it so it ain’t so secret, Rhandi, and its 101 pages and it uses terms and it says in it, in fact I’m looking at it and it talks about selling off every state-owned industry in Iraq, which is just about everything, and it says -especially those in the oil and supporting industries- that’s a quote.


I tape-recorded some of his interview...

[arcane1]

10. this sounds like alot more than those 4-5 JW documents!

WTF is Palast sitting on???


this, Blacbox voting hitting the mainstream press, and now billionaires taking out anti-Bush ads?


could be an interesting weekend!

[newsguyatl]

7. ohhhh

this is the cheney/oil field stuff?

i was already familiar with this...

didn't know palast was the source though...

sadly, this got very little attention...

[SoCalDem]

9. Klayman was the source

repulsive little troll that he is :)

[Pallas180]

11. FAx it to Jay Rockefeller, Senate Intel Committe and the New York

Times, the Post, The UK Guardian, The LI Observer.

You get the point.

[punpirate]

12. I think we're talking about two different documents....

The Cheney/oilfield papers that Klayman got through FOIA were Commerce Dept. assessments of the entire Middle East oil infrastructure--who had what and what companies played a role in each country, etc.--while the document Palast refers to was mentioned in the press sometime this past April, and comes from the State Dept. It is purported to be the US economic plan for Iraq, and is reported to be a guide to privatizing everything in the country, with American companies offered first dibs on whatever they want.

Cheers.