Holey MOLEY! Mission Accomplished to STEAL IRAQI OIL!! -->

[Dr. Jones]

22 May 2003. Just after President Bush declares "Mission Accomplished," he signs an Executive Order into law that sums up the true intent of the Iraq War. In one fell swoop, he shields American oil companies working in Iraq from any legal proceedings in the United States, giving the oil companies carte blanche legal justification to steal Iraqi oil in whatever capacity they deem appropriate.

It essentially gave the United States unilateral control of all of Iraq's oil resources, and no opposing country could contest it in a court of law.

WMDs, Democracy, Freedom. Saddam the ruthless dictator who tortures his own people. Freeing the Iraqi people from tyranny. All smoke and mirrors to hide the true intent of the war: A military action to seize Iraq's oil fields and hand them over to the lobby that has virtually written U.S. Foreign and Energy policy - American oil companies.

President Bush's mission was accomplished, and that's all that mattered to him. That is why from the moment he put his pen to the paper to sign Executive Order 13303, he cared little about what happened in Iraq thereafter and the brave men and women in uniform he put in harms way for a lie.

"Withdraw is up to future Presidents and future governments of Iraq to decide..."
George W. Bush

Executive Order 13303
Protecting the Development Fund for Iraq and Certain Other Property in Which Iraq Has an Interest

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), section 5 of the United Nations Participation Act, as amended (22 U.S.C. 287c) (UNPA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,

I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that the threat of attachment or other judicial process against the Development Fund for Iraq, Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products, and interests therein, and proceeds, obligations, or any financial instruments of any nature whatsoever arising from or related to the sale or marketing thereof, and interests therein, obstructs the orderly reconstruction of Iraq, the restoration and maintenance of peace and security in the country, and the development of political, administrative, and economic institutions in Iraq. This situation constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.

I hereby order:

Section 1. Unless licensed or otherwise authorized pursuant to this order, any attachment, judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or other judicial process is prohibited, and shall be deemed null and void, with respect to the following:

(a) the Development Fund for Iraq, and (b) all Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products, and interests therein, and proceeds, obligations, or any financial instruments of any nature whatsoever arising from or related to the sale or marketing thereof, and interests therein, in which any foreign country or a national thereof has any interest, that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of United States persons.

Source: http://reclaimdemocracy.org/articles_2003/executive_order_13303.html

[pberq]

1. Kick & Nominated !

[Supersedeas]

27. K&R

[Chimichurri]

2. Impeach the bastard!

[TAPat]

3. Using our children, and theirs, as blood sacrifice

to the Oil God.
Knew about this, but I'm pissed off afresh!

[liberal N proud]

4. We knew all along that the whole thing was about the oil

Blood for oil!

http://www.bloodforoil.org/

[azndndude]

5. Pretty much as they stole our land!

Same thing, different century. From an Indigenous person of this land

[Dr. Jones]

9. The more things change...

the more they stay the same.

[flyarm]

6. I REMEMBER READING THIS AT THE TIME...AND

my internet group i run..we were posting it everywhere..but it got no traction..seemed no one was interested then!

and the freepers had every excuse under the sun for *hes actions then...

glad this is coming to the forefront again!

fly

[Dr. Jones]

10. What we need is a huge media blast.

Anyone up for it??

[babsbunny]

32. Send to Keith Olbermann!

[leeroysphitz]

33. Randi Rhodes went on at great length about this document

at the time. It was also discussed quite a bit here at DU, if I recall correctly but I don't remember EVER hearing about it from any M$M sources, not even NPR...

[Slit Skirt]

7. Iraqi oil production at 1/2 of what it was

yeah right....the other half is going into these guys pockets!

[Blackhatjack]

13. You mean "metered" production is at 1/2 of what it was

..... no one knows the amount of oil being produced and exported by US Petroleum companies since the great majority is "unmetered." Do you not think this might irritate the Iraqis to see their oil leaving the country unmetered, which essentially means stolen, while they still do not have electricity, water, etc.

[Swamp Rat]

15. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[newyawker99]

22. Hi Blackhatjack!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Slit Skirt]

28. welcome to DU and....

someone should let the iraqi's know they are being ripped off....after we get our soldiers out of there first..safely

[annabanana]

34. Do you honestly think

that they don't know? Really?

[Seedersandleechers]

8. US intentions. An article from 2003 but still relevant

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/030703_us_intentions.html

[EVDebs]

17. DoE contradicts, agrees with Chavez 'extend oil age another 100 yrs'

Chavez rules out return to cheap oil
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4871938.stm

""Analysis by the US Department of Energy (DoE) - seen by Newsnight - shows that at $50 a barrel Venezuela - not Saudi Arabia - will have the biggest oil reserves in Opec. Venezuela has vast deposits of extra-heavy oil in the Orinoco. Traditionally these have not been counted because at $20 a barrel they were too expensive to exploit - but at $50 a barrel melting them into liquid petroleum becomes extremely profitable.

The DoE report shows that at today's prices Venezuela's oil reserves are bigger than those of the entire Middle East - including Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states, Iran and Iraq. In the future Venezuela won't have any more oil - but that's in the 22nd Century.

The US agency also identifies Canada as another future oil superpower. Venezuela's deposits alone could extend the oil age for another 100 years.""

So, either the DoE is lying, or the Bush administration neocons made a deal in Iraq they shouldn't have. They should have made a deal with Venezuela and Canada and stuck to business in this hemisphere, it seems to me. Makes George Washington's 'Farewell Address' prescriptions seem very prophetic.

More probably the DoE is lying. See
http://www.energybulletin.net/primer.php
on a Peak Oil Primer. It says this

""The 'Hirsch Report'

A risk mitigation study on Peak Oil was released in early 2005, commissioned by the US Department of Energy. Prepared by the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), and titled “Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation and Risk Management” , it is known commonly as the Hirsch Report after its primary author Robert L. Hirsch. The executive summary of the report warns that "as peaking is approached, liquid fuel prices and price volatility will increase dramatically, and, without timely mitigation, the economic, social, and political costs will be unprecedented. Viable mitigation options exist on both the supply and demand sides, but to have substantial impact, they must be initiated more than a decade in advance of peaking." Unfortunately nothing like the kind of efforts envisaged have yet begun. ""

So, there is another report at DoE contradicting the rosey scenario Chavez paints ?

[Blackhatjack]

11. A Blueprint for Similar Tort/Pharmaceutical Protection

This is essentially the same approach that tort/pharmaceutical protection will take if Bush has his way. Once they deprive the public of their right to regulate the provision of medical care and drug provision, the last step is to deprive the public of access to the courts to seek redress for injuries caused by healthcare providers engaged in negligent and/or wilful wrongful conduct, and pharmaceutical companies who push drugs to market for profit without fully disclosing the risks or taking prophylactic measures to make their drugs safer.

Remember, once government regulation disappears, and the courthouse doors are closed to the injured, we are all at incredible risk.

Of course, Republicans will remind us that businesses and healthcare providers will VOLUNTARILY regulate themselves, and that will produce the same wonderful results that VOLUNTARY regulation of air pollution has turned out to be under Bush's "Clear Skies Act."

[Boxerfan]

12. Randi's been saying it for a looooonggg time...13303 is the "Smoking Gun"

It proves the true motivation behind the illegal war...
Impeachment is so overdue.People are dying by the minute because of these BASTARDS!!

[EVDebs]

14. Nixon's 1973 plans to seize oil fields REDUX

U.S. Mulled Seizing Oil Fields In '73
British Memo Cites Notion of Sending Airborne to Mideast

By Glenn Frankel
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, January 1, 2004; Page A01

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A46321-2003Dec31?language=printer

""The document, titled "Middle East -- Possible Use of Force by the United States," says that if there were deteriorating conditions such as a breakdown of the cease-fire between Arab and Israeli forces following the October 1973 Middle East war or an intensification of the embargo, "we believe the American preference would be for a rapid operation conducted by themselves" to seize the oil fields.""

This document should be brought into the impending impeachment of Bush and Cheney, whose 'energy plan' was kept secret from the American people specifically in order to further the updated plan to seize oil fields in another country, Iraq. Thirty year old plans, stale as crackers in a fallout shelter, were what pass as justification for this travesty in Iraq.

Why not just level with the people and go about setting higher CAFE standards for autos, a plan to get the US off its 'oil jones' habit ? The Republican party could have done that. Instead, it chose to implode. Good riddance.

This is why the Quakers (Friends) were spied upon domestically BTW. The Quakers put those permanent bases on the web at:

If the U.S. is ultimately leaving Iraq, why is the military building 'permanent' bases?
www.fcnl.org/iraq/bases.htm

and the location of these bases matches the oil fields in Iraq shown at JudicialWatch's website
(click onto the Iraq map pdf file):
http://www.apfn.net/Messageboard/04-12-05/discussion.cgi.46.html

[robertpaulsen]

31. Wonder if the author of Three Days of the Condor knew this.

.
Higgins: It's simple economics. Today it's oil, right? In ten or fifteen years, food. Plutonium. Maybe even sooner. Now, what do you think the people are gonna want us to do then?
Joe Turner: Ask them?
Higgins: Not now - then! Ask 'em when they're running out. Ask 'em when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask 'em when their engines stop. Ask 'em when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You wanna know something? They won't want us to ask 'em. They'll just want us to get it for 'em!

Joe Turner: Boy, what is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073802/quotes

[EVDebs]

37. The NYT didn't publish ! See the article, the Brits leaked the truth 30

years later. Only then did the Times publish anything, since it was already 'out'. BTW, Judith Miller and Bob Woodward work for the government, just 'under the table'.

[Canuckistanian]

16. I'll bet this was the true subject of Cheney's Energy Task Force

The oil companies were probably telling Cheney exactly what they wanted to see in the EO.

What are the dates of those two occurences?

[EVDebs]

18. Now read post #17 about Venezuela's oil reserves at $50 bbl

and a war for oil in the ME seems very stupid indeed. In fact, when oil is running out in Iran and Saudi Arabia, the spigot will just be going on in Venezuela. This means that Iran, if it hasn't been blown off the map along with Israel by then, will be forced to buy Hugo Chavez's oil within around twenty years or so. God does have a wicked sense of humor, resource-wise it seems.

[DemInDistress]

30. Iraq's oilfields for "BIG OIL" companies..PAID.. Prescription plans

for the Pharmaceutical companies..PAID and the pi-esta resisance'(?) "SOCIAL SECURITY MONEY FOR WALL STREET".
King George the Imbecile pays back for his stolen elections in 2000 and 2004.

[The Backlash Cometh]

19. High piracy. This is Libertarianism gone amok.

Amok, amok, amok.

[Dr. Jones]

23. What I want to know is why Russia, China, et al allowed this to happen.

I suspect they would be very angry and wanting revenge!

[The Backlash Cometh]

25. Very, very good question.

I asked a similar question today in another thread, but in reference to our allies.

Here it is:

If Bush was this looney-tunes, I wonder why our allies didn't work
harder to expose him sooner? It didn't have to be openly, but they've been spying on us long enough to pick up some juicy information that would turn the American people against this president. Is it possible that they sat quietly while Bush did their dirty work in the Middle East, then hoped the US would burn itself out in the process?

[Dr. Jones]

20. Links to media blast?

Does anyone have any links to media blast this thing? Being a DU nubie I'm not sure how to do that. ;)

[annabanana]

35. here ya go!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/cu/cu.php?az=blaster

[TexasLawyer]

21. kick

[Old and In the Way]

24. Operation Iraqi Liberation

OIL

Without a modern day Pearl Harbor, how could Bush get his hands on Iraq's oil?

[file83]

26. The OIL is LIBERATED!!! n/t

[Joanne98]

29. Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL) It's real name.......

[Maraya1969]

36. Here is an explanation of some of the legalize.

"In other words, if ExxonMobil or ChevronTexaco touch Iraqi oil, it will be immune from legal proceedings in the United States. Anything that could go, and elsewhere has gone, awry with U.S. corporate oil operations will be immune to judgment: a massive tanker accident; an explosion at an oil refinery; the employment of slave labor to build a pipeline; murder of locals by corporate security; the release of billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The president, with a stroke of the pen, signed away the rights of Saddam's victims, creditors and of the next true Iraqi government to be compensated through legal action. Bush's order unilaterally declares Iraqi oil to be the unassailable province of U.S. corporations.

In the short term, through the Development Fund and the Export-Import Bank programs, the Iraqi people's oil will finance U.S. corporate entrees into Iraq. In the long term, Executive Order 13303 protects anything those corporations do to seize control of Iraq's oil, from the point of production to the gas pump -- and places oil companies above the rule of law."

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/weekly_2003/oil_corporations_iraq_immunity.html