The following letter has been edited for brevity: Jay, What’s the “tragic saga?” You are putting the cart before the horse like most media writers who like to sensationalize a story. Why didn’t you write something when all this gambling on sports first began which is disgusting? Call out the commissioners and MLB, NFL, NHL, […]
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administration officials continue to maintain that oil is not a factor in their war deliberations. in this infinity cbs radio interview broadcast on c-span, defense secretary donald rumsfeld is pressed on that issue. mr. secretary, what do you say to people who think this is about oil? nonsense. it just isn t. there s certain things like that myths that are floating around and i m glad you asked. it has nothing to do with oil. literally nothing to do with oil. behind the scenes though, planning for iraq s oil goes into overdrive. rumsfeld s defense department has just recruited former exxon executive, gary vogler to plan for the administration of iraq s oil sector, soon after the impending invasion. our mission was to repair, restore iraq s oil sector to the prewar level before we went in. and we got word in probably november that we needed to be
ready by the middle of february. we took that to mean that we needed to be ready to go to war by the middle of february. according to vogler, he and a pentagon team traveled to houston, texas, to the epicenter of big oil to discuss their postinvasion plans for iraq s oil sector. the defense department team does not convene at a u.s. military base or even at a government building. they meet, instead, at this houston location, the offices of kbr, a subsidiary of the oil company, haliburton. part of the defense department s prewar planning for iraq s oil takes place in a halliburton subsidiary office in texas. a detail not known to the public before now. the bush administration had lots of contacts in houston in the sophisticated executive suites of the major u.s. headquartered oil companies and