Iraq War-Pusher Now Wants Iraq Oil Money
July 29th, 2008, 11:09 AM EDT
Richard Perle, who, as a former Pentagon advisor and as a principal of the Project for a New American Century, was one of the chief proponents of war with Iraq, according to Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal.
Mr. Perle, one of a group of security experts who began pushing the case for toppling Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein about a decade ago, has been discussing a possible deal with officials of northern Iraq’s Kurdistan regional government, including its Washington envoy, according to these people and the documents.
The area is said to contain 150 million or more barrels of oil, and would be operated by Houston’s Endeavor International.
Robert Kaufman, Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Boston University says there’s 41 billion barrels of oil on US territory that the oil companies could be working, and 19 billion on property currently under ban.
His interview on NPR is here:
http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200807185
July 29th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Tell me again. Why did we attack a sovreign nation who had nothing to do with 9/11?
WMD’s you say?
I think not!
July 29th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Ted Stevens has been indicted. Quick! Someone build him a bridge to a good law firm.
July 29th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Guest-hosting again? A conspiracy’s afoot.
July 29th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Prison time.
Ray Hunt, Richard Perle and others. There’s no other place these people need to be.
Unless these people are put away for their crimes, we’re all doomed. Justice has to prevail. Justice and the rule of law are the foundation of all that we are.
July 29th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
This is an evil guy from way back.
Always undermining US interests for those of the arms industry.
Dana Milbank reported in the Washington Post that Richard Perle was the chief suspect in another Novak-assisted leak of classified information in December 1975:
“Novak, with his late partner Rowland Evans, got the classified leak — that President Gerald R. Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were ready to make concessions to the Soviet Union to save the SALT II treaty.
Donald H. Rumsfeld, then, as now, the secretary of defense, intervened to block Kissinger.” Perle at the time was “an influential aide to Sen. Henry Scoop Jackson (D-Wash.) …
The account was described in a 1977 article in The Washington Post, noting Perle’s ’special access’ to Evans and Novak.”
July 29th, 2008 at 9:35 pm