[Vision2020] Why Invading Iraq Makes "Oil" Sense

[Donovan Arnold]

"But it might interest you to note that Norway is
> the third largest exporter 
> of oil.  Canada has the second largest reserves.  So
> if invading countries 
> for their oil was the idea, invading Norway would
> look pretty good as would 
> invading Canada."

What a JOLLY good idea! Norway and Canada would never
see us coming. And I know the US military could spare
two tanks to fulfill the task.

Donovan J Arnold

--- Tbertruss at aol.com wrote:

> 
> Phil wrote on 8/18/05:
> 
> "But it might interest you to note that Norway is
> the third largest exporter 
> of oil.  Canada has the second largest reserves.  So
> if invading countries 
> for their oil was the idea, invading Norway would
> look pretty good as would 
> invading Canada."
> 
> The tar sands oil in Alberta are difficult to
> extract and turn into usable 
> energy forms, and will probably not be extensively
> developed until after the 
> cheaper and easier to access oil reserves in the
> world are more depleted, unless 
> global military and/or political problems deny the
> US and its allies access to 
> Middle East and other sources of oil.  New
> technology may change this 
> picture.  From Forbes.com:
> 
>
http://www.forbes.com/energy/2005/02/17/cz_0217oxan_canadaoil.html
> 
> "Also, in spite of recent technological advances,
> extracting oil from the tar 
> sands remains a slow process. Oil from the tar sands
> cannot be extracted and 
> refined into useable oil quickly enough to replace
> other readily accessible 
> sources from elsewhere in the world. In 2004, oil
> from the tar sands accounted 
> for just over 1% of global oil production. Further
> technological advances will 
> be necessary to close this gap."
> 
> Invading Canada of course is a joke.  But consider
> that even if the US wanted 
> to invade Canada to protect the tar sands oil
> reserves, why bother?  We 
> already have a huge military presence here in the
> USA protecting "friendly" Canada 
> anyway.  And besides, the oil reserves of Iraq and
> Saudi Arabia are larger 
> than Canada's, easier to extract and of higher
> quality.  And unlike Canada's oil 
> reserves, they are clearly under threat of control
> by ideologies and potential 
> future regimes in the Middle East hostile to the US
> and its allies, such as 
> the funding from the extreme Wahhahism in Saudi
> Arabia for Islamic terrorism, 
> which had far more to do with the 9/11 attacks than
> the fantasies of Saddam's 
> involvement. 
> 
> There is the potential for cutting off Middle East
> oil supply to the US and 
> other allies under some future scenarios.  For
> example, again, the Wahhabism in 
> Saudi Arabia is a threat to the stability of the
> Saudi government, and to US 
> interests in Saudi oil reserves, which could result
> in Saudi Arabia turning 
> against US oil interests, that a US military
> presence in Iraq can guard against:
> 
> >From the Council On Foreign Relations web site:
> 
> 
>
http://www.cfr.org/pub6178/michael_mandelbaum/us_faces_dilemma_on_saudi_policy.php
> 
> "But the rule of the Saudi royal family rests on
> another, internal bargain. 
> The regime has embraced as its official ideology a
> radical form of Islam known 
> as Wahhabism, which preaches intolerance for, indeed
> hatred of, all others - 
> Muslim and non-Muslim alike - who do not subscribe
> to its precepts. It is as 
> if, says the eminent historian of the Mideast
> Bernard Lewis, the U.S. government 
> were promoting the ideas of the Ku Klux Klan.   "
> 
> >From the point of view of using military force to
> protect the largest and 
> highest quality oil reserves in the world, both for
> the energy needs of the US 
> and its allies, and to prevent these oil reserves
> serving the ends of ideologies 
> or governments opposed to the USA, the US invasion
> of Iraq and building 
> military bases there makes sense, if only the Iraqis
> and the rest of the world 
> would cooperate with our agenda as we wish.  
> 
> In saying this I am not supporting the invasion and
> occupation of Iraq, but 
> only pointing out the logic involved in the invasion
> from the point of view of 
> protecting US energy interests and global
> political/economic hegemony 
> regarding the largest, highest quality and easily
> accessible oil reserves in the 
> world, those in the Middle East.
> 
> Ted Moffett
> >
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