Just for you myth_killer, here’s some mythical bedtime stories about Iraq and what Cheney and Rumsfeld and the seven neo con dwarfs went in there for:

The Oil and the War – A Timetable

February 2001
Plan A.
A month after Bush’s ‘election’ to the White House a meeting is held in Walnut, California. The National Security Council and the State Department plan the invasion of Iraq. They even interview a replacement for Saddam.  According to Falah Aljibury, who hosted the meeting, (Aljibury was a top U.S. oil industry advisor on Iraq) the original plan was for an invasion that had the characteristics of a coup ‘…shut everything down for two or three days… then everything ‘as is’. Under this plan the ministry would retain the government oil monopoly.

December 2000 –March 2001
The idea of a global energy plan is put forward by the James Baker III Institute and sponsored by Saudi Arabia. The fly in the ointment is Saddam who is doing unpredictable things and causing the oil price to fluctuate wildly… ‘requiring an immediate policy review – military, energy, economic, diplomatic.’  In March 2001 Baker, CFR Group member Ken Lay (remember Enron?) and other industry chiefs have a secret meeting with Dick Cheney in order to cast their eyes over a map of Iraq’s oil fields.

October 2001 – February 2003
Fired up by 9/11 and their easy victory in Afghanistan the neo-cons draw up a counter plan, Plan B. This involves a year long occupation in order to turn Iraq into a free market poster child. The 101 page secret document becomes a grab bag of goodies for insider lobbyists who fill it with corporate benefits such as copyright protections for Microscoft and Sanyo.

September 2002
In Plan B, the purpose of privatizing Iraq’s oil is set out in the ‘Economy Plan’ spelled out by Ari Cohen of the Heritage Foundation for neo-cons at the Pentagon. The purpose is simple: destroy OPEC and the Saudis. Privatizing the oil is the key, which requires abolishing Iraq’s state oil monopoly and selling their oil fields.

March 17 2003
Bush II broadcasts this message to the Iraqis: ‘Do not destroy oil wells,’. This signals the beginning, as announced by Ari Fleischer, White House spokesman, of Operation Iraqi Liberation which is an acronym for OIL. This is quickly changed to Operation Iraqi Freedom.

May 2003 – June 2004
Managing Director of Kissinger Associates, Jerry Bremer replaces Jay Garner. He cancels planned elections and appoints a new government. At its head he places neo-con favourite, convicted bank swindler, Ahmad Chalabi. Neo-con puppets then fire pro-State Department, pro-OPEC oil ministers and bring in Plan B. It sells off Iraq’s banks and changes the copyright laws to favour Microsoft and Sanyo.

November 2003-January 2004
A 323 page document Options for Iraq, which sets out the details of Plan A is secretly written up by Amy Jaffe of the James Baker III Institute, along with oil industry experts. It sets out only one option: a state oil company that will ‘enhance Iraq’s relationship with OPEC’. Privatization and destroying OPEC are out. No one tells the neo-cons about the new plan.

May 2004-March 2005
Dick Cheney deserts the neo-cons and sticks with Big Oil. By May 20 Ahmad Chalabi is on the run, wanted for espionage. His governing council is scuttled and a ‘sovereign’ government, with a Baathist at its head meets with State Department approval. Bremer gets the boot and John Negroponte, a firm friend of Big Oil replaces him. There is much rejoicing at the Council on Foreign Relations: ‘The realists have defeated the fantasists,’ they bleat.  Baathists fired by Bremer and Chalabi return to run the oil ministry and establish a state oil monopoly. They are Pro-OPEC and the Saudis are saved. Oil prices break all records reaching $50 a barrel and the oil reserves of the top five oil companies increase their value by over $2 trillion.

Constitutional duty? Where were you when Bush and Cheney trashed the constitution? Locking up innocent people for years on end with no charges and no trial. Did you complain about them throwing the Geneva Conventions and Habeus Corpus out the window? Were you yelping about them and demanding they produce their long, short and middlesized birth certificates which proved their fitness to serve? Of course not - because they’re white, aren’t they? Foreign is just a euphemism for black. You’re talking nonsense that you probably heard on faux news. In my opinion Americans got lucky- they certainly don’t deserve someone as intelligent and decent as Obama. And why would anyone who wasn’t an American patriot want the job? And don’t you think his enemies on the right would have used the evidence you’re baying for if it existed? Of course they would have, so it doesn’t exist. He is an American citizen, it says it on his passport and they don’t just hand them out to anyone. He’s going to be knee deep in elephant shit for years to come and has to listen to ridiculous lies like the ones you’re spouting into the bargain. Calling for the joint chiefs of staff to defend the constitution now is closing the barn door when the horse has bolted. James Pohl is not some patriotic hero and there isn’t going to be an uprising- more’s the pity because I’d like to see Bush and Cheney go before the same kangaroo courts they’ve put others before.