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The Real Objectives of the U.S. in Iraq
(Dr. Abdul Hay Zallom, Al Jazeera, 8 April 2003)
Iraq owns 11 per cent of international oil reserves, which accounts for more than 112 billion barrels of oil. Studies by the US Energy Information Administration put the reserves in excess of 200 billion barrels. An added attraction is that the cost of pumping Iraqi crude is the cheapest worldwide. . . . The US is the world’s largest oil consumer. While an US citizen consumes 28 barrels per year, his Chinese counterpart burns only two barrels per year. . . . The United States’ real objectives were revealed by Powell to Congress…when he said that Washington would carry out structural change after occupying Iraq…for us, this structural change, which would primarily depend on oil, would be the establishment of a new empire…Empires do not come into being by coincidence. . . . our Arab world is subject to a Bush-Sharon intended empire. . . . “Orbs” Magazine wrote in 1957. Its editor-in-chief was William Eliot, and after him his student Henry Kissinger…The magazine wrote that the mission of the United States was to unify the whole world under its leadership…that is to say a worldwide Empire led by the United States and stamped by the American spirit and culture. . . . oil is the pillar and the soul of such future empires . . . Iraqi oil reserves may even exceed 200 billion barrels . . . Iraq is a prey and the opportunity should be seized, especially since the United States’ oil reserves stand at just 22 billion barrels. . . . Oil for the United States is a matter of life or death…Not only Iraqi oil…Iraq will only be the first step and will be followed by other countries…the Middle East and Iran possess 65 per cent of the world’s oil reserves…that may be one of the reasons for picking off Iraq . . . The first US trade deficit was caused by its oil imports…before the . . . 1991 Gulf War, the United States used to import 45 per cent of its oil demand. Studies at that time predicted that US oil imports would increase to 60 percent by the end of the 90s and to 100 percent in the years to follow . . . if a projection was made about the United States’ complete reliance on imported oil, how would then the US trade deficit look? . . . It means that if oil was very important for the United States in the past, it will be a matter of life or death for it in the future…Oil is the Arabs’ real weapon of mass destruction. . . . The issue of the price is a matter of national security for the United States…in other words, if a state decides to increase or decrease the price in contradiction to the US interests, Washington would consider that a violation of its national security . . . this is a conflict for profit and not for ideology

posted by Lorenzo 12:17 PM