Reply #8: excellent post ... [View All]

i actually recalled some of this information after i made the post ... i'm glad you raised this issue ...

does it contradict what Wilkerson and O'Neill spoke about in the excerpt I provided?

I've read other articles about the oil bourse and threats to switch to the Euro ... does this lead to the same policy as a restriction on access to oil would do?

or does this return to the argument that while oil procurement would be in the national interest, protecting against a conversion to the Euro would only be motivated by corporate greed? what i'm not clear about is whether a conversion of oil currency to the Euro would cause a devastating collapse of the US economy ...

what i'm asking here is whether a case, an honest case, can be made that the policy in the Middle East, however misguided and immoral i believe it is, was at least made in the national interest with oil company profits being a by-product?

fwiw, here's an excerpt from what O'Neill had to say (in Suskind's book):

"On Feb. 3, 2001 – only two weeks after Bush took office – an NSC document instructed NSC officials to cooperate with Cheney's Energy Task Force because it was "melding" two previously unrelated areas of policy: the review of operational policies towards rogue states" and "actions regarding the capture of new and existing oil and gas fields."