Approximately 1/3 of our imported oil comes from the Middle East. Canada and Mexico provide the other 2/3.
However, the oil that we import from Canada and Mexico is oil that is unavailable for consumption by others, therefore they wind up buying from the Middle East. Either way, we wind up funding both sides in the war on terror.
And if you really want to get sick to your stomach, google "tar sands of Alberta" to find out just how destructive to the enviorment that Canadian oil really is.
Since the Middle East has been brought up and no arguement, take out the oil and our interest in that region and it's conflicts would be nowhere to be found. That said, there are forces at play from the Saudi royals themselves early on to hide their hands in the pie as the esculation of Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laben began to play out. They even used early terrorist attacks to shift the blame to their enemies in the Shia of Iran and we took the bait. Whatelse has happened in the Middle East that is the hand of sunni rather than shia and the whole time we're setting about the region benefitting the Saudi royals who may in historical time prove to be more at the hand in all this mess than we are now led to believe. Let's not ignore our efforts to lock down
Iranian oil behind an
embargo while Saudi and potentially even more Sunni oil freely flows forth. Are we're intervening in a market to benefit a monopoly
baron and thus sacrifice the blood of our own in doing so?
Let's be honest here, take Iraq oil and then Iranian oil off the global market and what does the price of Saudi oil do? Is the real reason in the Persian Gulf really about
Carter's proclaimation of protecting the region on a Cold War paradign from the perspective of the Think Tankers while the money men see a means to a profit and protecting the status of US reserve currency dominance?
What I also find interesting is the oil production history of both Iran and Iraq from 1973' to the present. But looking at the charts you might notice 2 interesting eras for both nations. Iran saw the overthrow of the Shah in 79' and hence it's oil output plunged. In 1981' we also see a pronounced drop in Iraq oil output that really started in 1979' when Saddam took power under interesting circumstances. One has to wonder about the CIA's track record here considering the activites of both past and future from a 1979' perspective. But one also has to wonder what might have been the real motive of the Israeli's when they entered the fray in 1981'. Doesn't something about this story sound all to familar? Could Kuwait have been a baited trap to set up conditions for the CIA and like minded friends to clean up the very mess
they help create in the first place? When in the late 1990's it was apparent Saddam had circumvented the embargo with some interesting help but how funny when you consider the names of who at that same time were pushing the Clinton adminstration to invade Iraq with the idea of formenting regime change of which President Clinton was all the more willing to champion. But then, maybe Iraq's greatest sin was before the 2000' election and thus the importance of a specific side needing to win that election and going to whatever lengths to make sure it's able to cover it's tracks!
And what about Iran? Sure, their production fell after the Shah was removed but they were kept in check via a rigged game of the Iraq/US/NATO interests but also in this alliance were the Saudi's who
profitted during this period of oil limits to the market. And let's not mention Iran
following Iraq's footsteps and how long before Washington try's to pull the nuclear option on
a misbehaving Chavez? The need to protect the dollar's global reserve currency hegemony at all cost is even more important now and at the same time, these so-called enemies now know our true weakness as they know head to head on the military battlefield they stand no chance. But on the economic battlefield, have they slit our throats and are now standing back watching us slowly bleed to death?
Through all this mess, the Saudi's always profitted and yet, from where did almost all the
9/11 terrorist come from? It's long past due we rethink and re-look at the Middle East region, who we call our friends and most importantly, why we call them friends.
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The Saudi regime steered the FBI investigation toward Iran and its Saudi Shi’a allies with the apparent intention of keeping U.S. officials away from a trail of evidence that would have led to Osama bin Laden and a complex set of ties between the regime and the Saudi terrorist organiser.
The key to the success of the Saudi deception was FBI director Louis Freeh, who took personal charge of the FBI investigation, letting it be known within the Bureau that he was the "case officer" for the probe, according to former FBI officials.
Freeh allowed Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan to convince him that Iran was involved in the bombing, and that President Bill Clinton, for whom he had formed a visceral dislike, "had no interest in confronting the fact that Iran had blown up the towers," as Freeh wrote in his memoirs.
The Khobar Towers investigation soon became Freeh’s vendetta against Clinton. "Freeh was pursuing this for his own personal agenda," says former FBI agent Jack Cloonan. [/FONT]
Investigating the Khobar Tower Bombing
By GARETH PORTER
Scott Horton of Austin Texas radio station KAOS-FM
interviewed Gareth on this subject as well for which Gareth has written a 5 part piece for IPS (InterPress Service) Links to Gareth's 5 parts are found at the above link also along with the actual interview.
Maybe we should look at what sits literally right in front of our faces
Report: Saudi Royals May Have Financed Militants
Documents Back Saudi Link to Extremists
Saudi royals funded 9/11: Lawyers
"YUK! YUK! YUK! We Fooled Em' AGAIN. Let's have a beer and celebrate the New President's continuing "The Game!"
Did we ever just consider the fact that
Obama was doing what
Bush before him did, or
Clinton before that and Bush 1 before that. Maybe it's past time we started looking down the rabbit hole just to see how far it goes. Once we get past
the upper parts, we might be shocked.
