Akkam’s Razor

Rightwing pundits and Bushbots love to mock liberals in their "crazy" No-Blood-for-Oil rants, dismissing them as baseless lunacy. The facts, however, tell a much different tale…

Via America For Sale:

The neo-conservatives’ plan involved selling-off Iraq’s oil fields in an attempt to use Iraq’s oil to destroy the Opec cartel through massive increases in production above Opec quotas. However, Philip Carroll, the former CEO of Shell Oil USA who took control of Iraq’s oil production for the U.S. Government a month after the invasion, stalled the sell-off scheme. …The former Shell oil boss [Phillip Carroll] agrees. In Houston, he told Newsnight: "Many neo conservatives are people who have certain ideological beliefs about markets, about democracy, about this, that and the other. International oil companies, without exception, are very pragmatic commercial organizations. They don’t have a theology."

Via Topple Bush:

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, said today that documents turned over by the Commerce Department, under court order as a result of Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit concerning the activities of the Cheney Energy Task Force, contain a map of Iraqi oilfields, pipelines, refineries and terminals, as well as 2 charts detailing Iraqi oil and gas projects, and ‘Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts.’ The documents, which are dated March 2001, are available on the Internet at: www.JudicialWatch.org.

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