Thursday, October 22, 2009

Texas Oil Man: US Should Plunder Iraqi Oil

by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy

Texas oil man T. Boone Pickets typifies what is dead wrong about America and what passes for 'foreign policy'. Pickens claims the US is 'entitled' to Iraqi oil. How convenient for the oil barons who conspired with Dick Cheney to carve up the oil fields of Iraq before 911 would give Bush the pretext he would need to attack and invade Iraq, a nation that had nothing whatsoever to do with 911.

Nevertheless, it would be claimed that Iraq was --somehow --a part of the 'war on terror'. Is there no end to the lies? Might I remind that on 911, it was a gang of Israelis, perhaps criminals from Mossad, who were seen dancing and celebrating! It was NOT Iraqis who celebrated the deaths of innocent Americans! Clearly --Bush waged war on everyone but the 'real terrorists'.

Mossad is just as crooked as is the CIA about which I have written, possibly, thousands of pages [See: Why the CIA is the world's number one terrorist organization] Secondly, the US is perpetually auctioned off to the highest bidders on K-Street! And the the most powerful lobby on K-street is most certainly the Jewish Lobby. Meanwhile, Israel is breaking every international law with respect to Palestine as we write and post.

Every cover, every rationalization, every pretext for war was a treasonous lie from traitors who betrayed the people of the US, the Constitution, and specific US Codes that make any death resulting from such a war a crime punishable by death. If you are reading this, George W. Bush, you are not out of the woods.

Now for the idiot du jour:
Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens told Congress on Wednesday that U.S. energy companies are "entitled" to some of Iraq's crude because of the large number of American troops that lost their lives fighting in the country and the U.S. taxpayer money spent in Iraq.

Boone, speaking to the newly formed Congressional Natural Gas Caucus, complained that the Iraqi government has awarded contracts to foreign companies, particularly Chinese firms, to develop Iraq's vast reserves while American companies have mostly been shut out.

"They're opening them (oil fields) up to other companies all over the world ... We're entitled to it," Pickens said of Iraq's oil. "Heck, we even lost 5,000 of our people, 65,000 injured and a trillion, five hundred billion dollars."

--Reuters, Pickens says U.S. firms 'entitled' to Iraqi oil
T. Boone Pickens is either stupid, ignorant or just doesn't care! I am referring to various kinds of law, specifically English Common Law upon which most US laws and Constitution are based and, secondly, US Codes, Title 18, Section 2441 which makes what the US did in and to Iraq and to the people of Iraq a war crime punishable by death.

That applies, of course, to Bush who ordered the attack and invasion as well as his close associates who conspired with him knowing that Iraq had no WMD. It applies as well to the Army brass in an all volunteer army. They must take responsibility for having willingly participated in the commission of war crimes for which the penalty is death as prescribed by US law.

Now --are we to believe that US laws are no longer valid? Certainly --there must be a reason the Bush crime family is never brought to justice! There must be a reason that a certain 'class' in America is --in fact --above the law! Perhaps the law has become quaint replaced by a sophisticated but unjust two-tiered affair in which the criminal justice system enforces laws on behalf of an elite 'ruling class' which is itself place above the rule of law to which everyone is expected to pay obeisance and tribute! This elite ruling class of just one percent of the total US population own more than about 95 percent of the rest of us combined and is, in fact, the only beneficiary of US wars of aggression and oil theft in Iraq and elsewhere. Big Brother has arrived!

FACT TIME: there is only ONE justification for war under International Law and that is ''imminent threat'. Iraq POSED no such threat to the US or its interests. That's why Bush tried to claim that Iraq was a part of the so-called 'war on terrorism'' though there is absolutely NO EVIDENCE that Iraq had anything at all to do with 911.

I say revolution now! I say bring down this elite! I say arrest the war criminal who continue to rape the sovereign nation of Iraq! I say file capital charges against George W. Bush, his guilty staff and the Pentagon brass who knowingly and willing planned the entire heist on behalf of big oil!

I say charge every member of the Dick Cheney 'Energy Task Force' for planning it all, literally carving up the oil fields of Iraq before the all-too-convenient Riechstag Fire called 911 gave them the broad and wide ranging pretext to begin a perpetual war in which the US would plunder the Middle East.

Secondly, the US has an all volunteer army. Should that army commit war crimes, are not the willing participants of those crime subject to prosecution?

Is the legacy of the GOP/Reagan/Bush era the abolition of the rule of law? Clearly --unless things change, unless Bush and a gang of war criminals in the Pentagon are brought to justice, the very concept of the 'rule of law' will have become a macabre and ludicrous joke.
Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens told Congress on Wednesday that U.S. energy companies are "entitled" to some of Iraq's crude because of the large number of American troops that lost their lives fighting in the country and the U.S. taxpayer money spent in Iraq.

Boone, speaking to the newly formed Congressional Natural Gas Caucus, complained that the Iraqi government has awarded contracts to foreign companies, particularly Chinese firms, to develop Iraq's vast reserves while American companies have mostly been shut out.

"They're opening them (oil fields) up to other companies all over the world ... We're entitled to it," Pickens said of Iraq's oil. "Heck, we even lost 5,000 of our people, 65,000 injured and a trillion, five hundred billion dollars."

--Reuters, Pickens says U.S. firms 'entitled' to Iraqi oil
What the US did in and to Iraq and to the people of Iraq is a war crime punishable by death. That applies to Bush who ordered the attack and invasion as well as his close associates who conspired with him in the knowledge that Iraq had NO WMD. It applies as well to the Army brass who must take responsibility for having willingly participated in the commission of war crimes.

A Nation of Laws or Outlaws? 

Clearly --unless things change, unless Bush and a gang of war criminals in the Pentagon are brought to justice, the very concept of the 'rule of law' will have become a macabre and ludicrous joke.

Goodbye America, you sold your soul to the likes of T. Boone Pickens!



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8 comments:

SadButTrue said...

I wish I could say that this kleptocratic attitude is something new to the USA. It's not. In fact you could say that the country came into being in the act of grand larceny - literally stealing a continent.

Any history book that was written outside of the US is pretty clear on the subject, and contradicts what most Americans believe. The primary reason for the American Revolution was not the Stamp Act or the Boston Massacre but the Royal Proclamation of 1763 -- which proclamation guaranteed to the First Nations (aka Native Americans or the misnomer Indians) security of the lands beyond the Appalachians. The outcome of the Seven Years War (known as the French and Indian Wars in American texts) had negated all French claims to those lands.

So, having stolen the lands on the east coast, the revolutionary kleptocrats were eager to move further inland and steal even more. British jurisdiction prevented them from doing so, thus the Declaration of Independence, which specifically cites the Proclamation's restrictions as one of King George's many acts of tyranny. While many of those acts were truly tyrannical, this one was decidedly not.

The Louisiana Purchase merely added insult to injury -- the French had never really exerted the sovereign control over the midwest required to sell it off. So that could be described as one of history's largest cases of receiving stolen goods.

larryo said...

Right you are, Len. Biloxi sends her regards.

Since the DOJ has apparently been bought and paid for like the Congress, we decided to do our own prosecution. I have some example pleadings I want to send to you, and Biloxi tells me you want to see them.

We don't have your email address on this computer, and hers is inaccessible right now. Please email me at larry@willowsky.net. I will send you some info you will like, along with my phone number.

kenny said...

Len, I like the direction of your last couple of posts. I sense that you may be moving away from any chance of the two party system working. The wars and thefts continue no matter who has the majority.

The idea of "Should that army commit war crimes, are not the willing participants of those crime subject to prosecution?' has merit as a deterrent but I tend to give the ignorant dupe grunts who volunteer, most because of the economy, the benefit of a doubt. They couldn't overcome the system.

How do we chop off the head of the war and economic killing machine so that our youth do not have to be enablers?

Unknown said...

SadButTrue sez...

So, having stolen the lands on the east coast, the revolutionary kleptocrats were eager to move further inland and steal even more.

Absolutely! The British had closed the frontier, prohibiting any further expansion. The 'colonists' had something else in mind: EMPIRE!

larry sez ...

Biloxi sends her regards.

Thanks, Larry and my regards in return.

I have some example pleadings I want to send to you, and Biloxi tells me you want to see them.

That's cool and I will send you an email pronto.

kenny sez ...

I sense that you may be moving away from any chance of the two party system working.

I've always supported a multi-party system but never wrote about it because actually GETTING one is an extremely comoplicated and UN-SEXY process. It will involved a COMPLETE OVERHAUL --a revolution, if you will --of the method by which we elect all Federal officials. Given the fact that the US attention span is down to about 10 seconds (thanks to twitter and Fox), I doubt that I will ever get the platform or the time.

My 'cowboy' articles are too long these days --so I try to summarize things in the first paragraph and cite the sources and the arguments in the paragraphs that follow.

I will say this: we need to abolish the bi-cameral legislature and create a parliament. Secondly, we need to PUT STRICT limits on lobbies. This can be done without restricting access to government OR infringing free speech if we but give up the pernicious FICTION that other nations and corporations are people, Corporations and other nations are NOT people; the first amendment does NOT apply to these mere legal abstractions.

How do we chop off the head of the war and economic killing machine so that our youth do not have to be enablers?

That is the heart of the matter. I can describe a better (if not ideal) state --but getting there with a minimum of bloodshed is the hard part.

A 'velvet revolution' would be nice! But this is not the Czech republic and Americans tend to drive around in HUGE MF VANS and PU trucks with guns in them. Besides, such a revolution in America will be a matter of the MIC siding with the ruling one percent and laying waste to millions who dare oppose the monolith in DC.

William said...

The US tipped its hand very early on in the crime we know as "Operation Iraqi Freedom". I recall watching CNN as the troops executed the "Shock and Awe" campaign, rushing headlong toward Baghdad. The reporting, if anyone noticed, showed where the priorities were, by way of which assets were guarded by our troops. None of the hospitals, ministries, museums, infrastructure, etc., enjoyed armed protection. By way of comparison, any oil related positions were under heavy guard.

Not surprisingly, our compromised MSM made no mention of this fact, even as they showed footage of US military resources posted at oil depots, oil fields, and the oil ministry.

The and there, I saw with my own eyes what this was all about, still my arguments fell on deaf ears at the time, even with my more progressive colleagues.

"There are none so blind as those who will not see."

Unknown said...

William sez...

None of the hospitals, ministries, museums, infrastructure, etc., enjoyed armed protection. By way of comparison, any oil related positions were under heavy guard.

Absolutely! Clearly --US troops were given orders: SEIZE AND SECURE THE OIL!

It was all about oil and still is.

someone --please --develop a renewable source of energy that will put BIG OIL out of business.

I grew up in a Texas that had already been seized, occupied and exploited by these mendacious bastards long before I was born. I would like to have known a better Texas because OIL fucked it up! Alas!

SadButTrue said...

"I can describe a better (if not ideal) state --but getting there with a minimum of bloodshed is the hard part."

That echoes a proposition I put forth in a high school English essay - that all Utopian novels necessarily dealt with 'ideal' conditions without regard to how they were achieved.

I think it may have been the best essay I ever wrote - far exceeding the most ambitious teacher's expectations of an eleventh grader. It also put forth that Brave New World could be regarded not as Huxley's dystopian counterpart to Island, but a second Utopian novel -- albeit one where the definition of an ideal society was from the narrow perspective of the Alphas.

Unknown said...

SadButTrue sez...

That echoes a proposition I put forth in a high school English essay - that all Utopian novels necessarily dealt with 'ideal' conditions without regard to how they were achieved.

Very interesting, Sad! I am willing to wager that you --too --may have spent some time in the counselor's office for DARING to think outside the box !! Am I right?

I have long suspected that you and I had much in common : )