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German TV-Magazine MONITOR (transcript), aired

21 Nov 2002

Frontpage of "The Mirror" (London), Dec. 20, 2002

Iraq-Oil:
The reason for war

Zero tolerance by the UN-Weapon Inspectors towards the Iraqi Regime, is what President Bush demands and threatens with "hot disarmament" if Saddam Hussein fails to comply with all conditions to the letter. Bush asked Germany, as announced today at the Nato-Summit in Prague, to support him in the Iraq issue. He even asked Great Britain to have troops ready.

Countdown for the Iraq-War. A dictator has to be toppled and democracy installed. Such are the sublime reasonings for a military campaign. But there are other motives as well and those motives are not noble at all, but hard as nails. Only little is known about these motives.

Behind closed doors bustling activities are taking place on how to share the Iraqi Oil between the interested parties. If it comes to a replacement of the current government, the USA could then control the Iraqi oil market - the second largest in the Middle East.

America consumes 20 million barrels of oil daily - more than a quarter of all extracted oil, world wide. Day by day, night by night, America's hunger for oil will increase. By 2020 the American people shall use 25 million barrels of oil per day.

The back and forth debating regarding an Iraq-Resolution at the Security Council of the United Nations only distracts the world's attention from the real war-aim. The aim for this war is: to control the oil in the Middle East.

Tracing evidence: We found a highly explosive, internal document of the US-Army, dated back to March 2001. This document had been issued 6 months prior to 911. It contains a scenario of an Iraq-War, with detailed troop deployments and attack plans.

Under the headline "regional interests of the USA" it reads quite unequivocally: "Secured access to the oil at the Gulf." ...

Stock exchange analyst, Fred Mutalibov, is one of the foremost experts on the oil market in the USA. He speaks in plain English.

Fred Mutalibov, SWS Securities: "It is about oil interests. Right now Iraq is closed to the American oil and gas industry. Together with a change of the regime, the sanctions will be waved and then American companies shall return to Iraq again. I am not only talking about the oil and gas industry but also about equipping the whole country with technical know how, goods and services. America's interest to rebuild the Iraqi oil fields is enormous, there is a huge industry behind these plans."

It is all about the second largest oil reserves in the Middle East. A war and a change of the Iraqi Regime will decide who shall get what share of the future Iraqi market. Americans compete with the Russians and the French. ...

A race between the oil giants is on. American companies want to profit from Iraqi oil and they know: they have powerful friends in their government.

The President himself made money with oil. His Vice-President, Dick Cheney, was chairman of the board of Halliburton whose subsidiary was in business with Iraq until summer 2000. And Condoleezza Rice, the National Security Adviser, was a member of the board of Chevron.

The Bush-Administration, a cabinet of oil interests? Edward Morse, adviser to the oil industry, sees clear priorities in Bush's government.

Edward Morse, Hess Energy Trading: "Certainly, there are more leading personalities of the oil and gas industry in the present government than ever before in an American Cabinet. It starts with the President himself and goes on to his Vice-President, who was the chairman of the board of one of the most important oil equipping companies. This means: They know the industry and they have friends in this industry."

Oil loading at Ceyhan, Turkey, final destination of a gigantic pipeline from Iraq, the main export route of the future. Only little oil flows through nowadays, but this will change. After the war, which will be waged in  the name of democracy and security, but whose true power are the tough interests of the American oil giants.

Saddam Hussein, Passages of an Interview:

This way the Arab oil will be under American control and the region. All these things serve the Israeli interests ... to make Israel into a large empire in the area.

"Iraq is not the only country subjected to conspiracies. The U.S. wants to impose its hegemony on the region, and to do so it has to direct its hostilities towards the Arab countries, especially the pivotal ones. All this serves the Israeli Entity and International Zionism.

"The U.S. wants to destroy the centers of power in the Arab world, regardless of whether the center of power is in Damascus or Baghdad! Look around you and see what is happening in the region. See what is happening in southern Sudan, efforts to separate the south from the north and to influence our big sister Egypt, its national security, and the overall national security of the Arab nation! ...

"The U.S. wants to impose its hegemony on the Arab world, and as a prelude it wants to control Iraq and then strike the capitals that oppose it and revolt against its hegemony. From Baghdad, which will be under military control, it will strike Damascus and Tehran. It will fragment them and will cause major problems to Saudi Arabia. It is trying to create small entities controlled by safe-keepers working for the U.S., so that no country will be larger than Israel, quantitatively and qualitatively. This way the Arab oil will be under its control and the region, especially the oil sources – after the destruction of Afghanistan – will be under total control of the U.S. All these things serve the Israeli interests, and based on this strategy the purpose is to make Israel into a large empire in the area.

"Iraq's problem is that it opposes all these conspiracies, and the others do not understand that we are defending [them]. Everyone should know that no one will be safe from [the conspiracies] that are being hatched now against Iraq. All, from the point of view of the U.S. and Israel, are the same and what will happen to us, will happen to the others later. ...

"Therefore, all the large countries such as Iraq, Syria or Saudi Arabia will be divided into small Emirates, and the oil resources will be in the hands of midget-countries in a way that will serve the interests of the U.S., which will gain complete control over the oil fields from Algiers through the countries of the Caspian Sea. After dominating Afghanistan, [the U.S.] is getting ready now to dominate Iraq, Iran and Syria. ...

"Nations know the truth and are more capable of understanding than the leaders who are preoccupied with the Zionist conspiracies that are hatched by the media, conspiracies that blind those leaders."

Source: MEMRI - The Middle East Media Research Institute, Special Dispatch Series - No. 437 - http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD43702, November 05, 2002