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    The document summarizes two competing plans for post-invasion Iraq: Plan A crafted by the State Department and big oil to maintain Iraq's state oil monopoly and keep oil prices high, and Plan B crafted by neoconservatives to privatize Iraq's oil industry, increase production, and weaken OPEC countries like Saudi Arabia. It describes how Plan A, backed by Dick Cheney and big oil, was ultimately implemented, leading to high global oil prices and profits for major oil companies.

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    The document summarizes two competing plans for post-invasion Iraq: Plan A crafted by the State Department and big oil to maintain Iraq's state oil monopoly and keep oil prices high, and Plan B crafted by neoconservatives to privatize Iraq's oil industry, increase production, and weaken OPEC countries like Saudi Arabia. It describes how Plan A, backed by Dick Cheney and big oil, was ultimately implemented, leading to high global oil prices and profits for major oil companies.

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    The document summarizes two competing plans for post-invasion Iraq: Plan A crafted by the State Department and big oil to maintain Iraq's state oil monopoly and keep oil prices high, and Plan B crafted by neoconservatives to privatize Iraq's oil industry, increase production, and weaken OPEC countries like Saudi Arabia. It describes how Plan A, backed by Dick Cheney and big oil, was ultimately implemented, leading to high global oil prices and profits for major oil companies.

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    THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE

    Conspiracy nuts think George Bush, from the moment he took ofce, had a secret plan to control Iraqs oil. Theyre wrong. Bush had TWO plans. Here they are. One crafted by neo-conservatives at the Pentagon, another by the State Department and Big Oil. This is the history of the secret cold war between these two power elites that drove the hot war on the Tigris.

    WAR OVER OIL IN IRAQ


    March 17, 2003
    President Bush broadcasts this message to the Iraqi people: Do not destroy oil wells. So begins what White House spokesman Ari Fleischer terms, Operation Iraqi Liberation -- OIL. -- swiftly changed to OIF - Operation Iraqi Freedom.

    Feb 2001 -- Plan A


    BBC discovers that within a month of Bush Jr.s rst inaugural, National Security Council and State Department convene a confab in Walnut Creek, California, to plan the invasion of Iraq. Group auditions replacements for Saddam. Host Falah Aljibury, the top US oil industry advisor on Iraq, reveals the plan was for an invasion that acted like a coup ... shut down for two or three days ... then everything is ... as is - especially the oil ministry which would retain the government oil monopoly."

    May 2003 - Jan 2004


    Dick Cheney sides with Big Oil over the neo-cons: Snuffs neo-con plan to privatize Iraq's oil and raise output to cut oil prices and weaken OPEC and Saudi Arabia. Phil Carroll, ex-CEO of Shell Oil USA, dispatched to take charge of Iraqs oil ministry. quietly gives Bremer this order: There will be no privatization of Iraqi oil ... end of statement. In September, Carroll passes control to Houston crony Bob McKee, Chairman of Halliburton and former SVP of Conoco Oil. McKee orders a "contents confidential" write-up of Plan A re-establishing a state oil monopoly, keeping Iraq in OPEC and oil prices high. James Baker Institute in Houston drafts secret 323page Options for Iraqi Oil with only one option: a state oil company which would enhance {Iraqs} relationship with OPEC. In a sting operation, Palast team obtains a copy.

    Oct 2001 - Feb 2003 -- Plan B


    Emboldened by the
    September 11th attacks, neoconservatives draft a counter-plan: A year-long occupation to re-make Iraq into a free market miracle. The 101page secret program becomes a Christmas tree for insider lobbyists, including Grover Norquist, who help load it with corporate goodies: copyright protection for Microsoft and Sony, and the CFP (Comprehensive Privatization Program) to sell off all state assets, especially the oil.

    March 27, 2003


    Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz testies Iraq will be free - not free as in 'democratic,' but free as in thiswont -cost-us-a-penny. Theres a lot of money to pay for this that doesnt have to be U.S. taxpayer money, he tells Congress -- opposite the secret analysis he receives from the CIA and Department of Energy. Was it perjury?

    July 25, 1990


    James Baker III, Secretary of State to George Bush Sr., sends Saddam a diplomatic message the US would wink at his invasion of Kuwait: We have no opinion on your ... dispute with Kuwait. ...The Kuwait issue is not associated with America.

    January 2003
    State Department denies its Future of Iraq group discusses oil. But Bush team sends Robert Ebel, former CIA and industry oil specialist, to London to meet secretly with Future of Iraq leader Fadhil Chalabi to plan post invasion oil set-up. Fadhil, like his fellow tribesmen Ahmad Chalabi, wannabe potentate of Iraq, joins forces with neocons in plan to sell off Iraqs oil elds, break up and sell its state oil company, increase production, quit OPEC. CIA Industry man Ebel, fearing Saudi response, tells Chalabi his numbers are ridiculous.

    Dec 2000 - Mar 2001


    James Baker III Institute and Council on Foreign Relations group, sponsored by Saudi Arabia, map global energy plan. The bug in the soup: Saddam Hussein, whos jerking the oil markets, posing a difcult situation for the U.S. ... requiring an immediate policy review - military, energy, economic, diplomatic. In March, Baker-CFR group member Ken Lay and other industry chiefs meet secretly with VicePresident Dick Cheney. They review this map of Iraqs oil elds.

    April 21, 2003


    Three-star General Jay Garner, named occupation viceroy by President Bush, red by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld after setting quick elections in Iraq. Garner tells BBC he refused to sell off Iraqs oil elds and resisted long US occupation under the neo-cons' Plan B. General is replaced by Henry Kissinger business partner Paul Bremer--who cancels elections and appoints a new government under the control of neocon favorite, convicted bank swindler Ahmad Chalabi.

    May 2004 - and beyond


    Neo-cons hunted & eliminated. May 20th: Ahmad Chalabi sought for arrest. Neo-con fave Bremer is booted from Baghdad, Wolfowitz removed from Pentagon. Council on Foreign Relations rejoices, The realists have defeated the fantasists! US oil chiefs restore state oil monopoly. OPEC saved. Oil prices bust over $50 a barrel on way to $100--and reserves of top ve oil companies increase in value by over $3 trillion.

    from "Armed

    Madhouse" by Greg Palast (Penguin USA).

    Cartoon images by Robert Grossman. Collage by Winston Smith.

    View the BBC documentary at www.GregPalast.com

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