The Iraq Inquiry - Chilcott's Circus Clowns Come to Town

[Peter Lemkin]

From http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/pol...69610.html

Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show.
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The papers, revealed here for the first time, raise new questions over Britain's involvement in the war, which had divided Tony Blair's cabinet and was voted through only after his claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.


The minutes of a series of meetings between ministers and senior oil executives are at odds with the public denials of self-interest from oil companies and Western governments at the time.
The documents were not offered as evidence in the ongoing Chilcot Inquiry into the UK's involvement in the Iraq war. In March 2003, just before Britain went to war, Shell denounced reports that it had held talks with Downing Street about Iraqi oil as "highly inaccurate". BP denied that it had any "strategic interest" in Iraq, while Tony Blair described "the oil conspiracy theory" as "the most absurd".

Yeah, absurd is the right word. mileymad:

Any child could figure out that because they have oil - and don't grow cotton or broccoli in Iraq it is on 'target' for being taken over by ANY means necessary - with any lies and deceits being done/said to accomplish this fact. Further, since the oil/Carbon-lobby is about the strongest in holding the puppet strings of politicians and in control of the Secret Government, This would rank near or at the 'top' of resources the ultra-rich will steal [not buy or rent or lease or share]. :mexican: