Oil Industry Pushed for Iraq "Solution"


	Oil Industry Pushed for Iraq "Solution"

ddillard

7-2-2009 5:37 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/49a6bb7f-4627-40a1-9ef7-0c3b1fa198e9/E55BEECC-6876-410A-84AE-C4A50CD57FBF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://pubrecord.org/nationworld/978-eager-to-tap-iraqs-vast-oil-reserves-industry-execs-suggested-invasion.html" href="http://pubrecord.org/nationworld/978-eager-to-tap-iraqs-vast-oil-reserves-industry-execs-suggested-invasion.html" style="font-size: 11px;">pubrecord.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pubrecord.org/nationworld/978-eager-to-tap-iraqs-vast-oil-reserves-industry-execs-suggested-invasion.html"><P class="article_main_text">That April 2001 report, "<A href="http://www.rice.edu/projects/baker/Pubs/workingpapers/cfrbipp_energy/energycfr.pdf">Strategic Policy Challenges for the 21st Century</A>," was prepared by the James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy and the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations at the request of then-Vice President Dick Cheney.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pubrecord.org/nationworld/978-eager-to-tap-iraqs-vast-oil-reserves-industry-execs-suggested-invasion.html"><P class="article_main_text">In retrospect, it appears that the report helped focus administration thinking on why it made geopolitical sense to oust Hussein, whose country sat on the world's second largest oil reserves.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pubrecord.org/nationworld/978-eager-to-tap-iraqs-vast-oil-reserves-industry-execs-suggested-invasion.html"><DIV> The report recommended Cheney move swiftly to integrate energy and national security policy as a means to stop ''manipulations of markets by any state" and suggested that his task force include "representation from the Department of Defense."</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pubrecord.org/nationworld/978-eager-to-tap-iraqs-vast-oil-reserves-industry-execs-suggested-invasion.html"><P class="article_main_text">Two years after the Baker report, the United States - along with Great Britain and other allies - invaded Iraq. Now, more than six years after that, the U.S. oil industry finally appears to be in a strong position relative to Iraq's oil riches.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E55BEECC-6876-410A-84AE-C4A50CD57FBF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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