when carroll comes to baghdad, he comes up against radical u.s. plans being discussed to commandeer and france former rack s entire oil industry. he was surrounded by politicized young republican volunteers who had no experience in the oil industry who were planning stock market privatization schemes, running around talking about building pipelines from baghdad to israel, things that were really highly unrealistic and provocative. phil carroll very much acted as the brakes against the privatization crowd. in this 2005 bbc report, reaired on the program democracy now, phil carroll describes what he encountered when he arrived in iraq. models everywhere from the total privatization to partial privatization, et cetera, et cetera. there were all sorts of ideas floated about the economy of iraq and what ought to be done. i was very clear that there was to be no privatization of iraqi
nuclear bomb, a rogue county building nuclear weapons recall threatening to proliferate that technology, stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. but when 9/11 happened and the u.s. government announced that those actions would now constitution a grave and unacceptable threat to the united states, there was no radical change in our actions toward north korea. there was no move by the u.s. to disarm that country after 9/11. instead, the u.s. went into iraq. if the threat of weapons of mass destruction was the driving force for u.s. action after 9/11, why iraq rather than north korea? at the time, north korea really was building a nuclear bomb and threatening to proliferate that technology. iraq wasn t. the case for war in iraq that was presented to the american people proved to be a smoke screen. there were no weapons of mass destruction. there was no reconstituted iraqi nuclear program. the case that was made publicly for that war turned out to be false. what was true? what w
and the world and claims to have set off an atomic weapon. that day in 2006, the secretive, repressive north korean regime showed the world that they had built and tested a nuclear bomb, a rogue county building nuclear weapons recall threatening to proliferate that technology, stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. but when 9/11 happened and the u.s. government announced that those actions would now constitution a grave and unacceptable threat to the united states, there was no radical change in our actions toward north korea. there was no move by the u.s. to disarm that country after 9/11. instead, the u.s. went into iraq. if the threat of weapons of mass destruction was the driving force for u.s. action after 9/11, why iraq rather than north korea? at the time, north korea really was building a nuclear bomb and threatening to proliferate that technology. iraq wasn t. the case for war in iraq that was presented to the american people proved to be a smoke screen. there we
discussed to commandeer and transform iraq s entire oil industry. he was surrounded by politicized young republican volunteers who had no experience in the oil industry, who were planning stock market privatization schemes, running around talking about building pipelines from baghdad to israel. things that were really highly unrealistic and provocative. phil carroll very much acted as the brakes against the privatization crowd. in this 2005 bbc report re-aired on the program democracy now phil carroll describes what he encountered when he arrived in iraq. bottles everywhere from total privatization to partial privatization, et cetera, et cetera. there were all sorts of ideas floated about the economy of iraq and what ought to be done. i was very clear that there was to be no privatization of iraqi oil resources or facilities while i was involved. end of statement.
the bush administration draws up secret policy guidelines which are later declassified, stating that the coalition will move to privatize state-owned enterprises in iraq, including the oil industry. oil was the lifeblood of the iraqi economy. you got to get the oil going if you re going to get the economy going. it was not something we were doing for selfish american reasons or because we wanted more oil on the world market or all of these fantasies that people dream up. we were doing it because we were the iraqi government. the task of remaking iraq s oil sector falls to retired shell oil ceo phil carroll. carroll is appointed by the bush administration to be the senior adviser to iraq s oil ministry. his role was as was the case with all of these advisers to essentially get alongside the iraqis at the ministry of oil, make an assessment of the physical plant, the oil fields, the production facilities, and of the people. when carroll arrives in baghdad, he comes up against rad