The Energy Vampires Why Britain and France are so gung-ho to attack Libya

[ktlight]

To hear the "humanitarian" interventionists tell it, the NATO alliance is currently bombing Libya in order to avert an alleged "massacre" that may – or may not – happen if Moammar Gadhafi gets his hands on the rebels now holding the eastern province known as Cyrenaica. It’s just a coincidence that Libya is a major oil producer, and that the NATO allies demanding the dictator’s ouster are thirsty for the stuff.

If you believe otherwise, well then you’ve fallen victim to a "conspiracy theory," as any number of unrepentant neocons will tell you. During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, they were disdainful of the claim that their pet project was a thinly disguised oil grab, and still deny it. Yet now the documentary evidence is in, and it looks like the "war for oil" crowd was right, at least insofar as it concerns Tony Blair’s key supporting role as Bush’s British lapdog. A cache of over 1,000 memos obtained by author Greg Muttitt under the Freedom of Information act document at least five meetings between British government officials and BP/Shell as the war propaganda began to heat up. As the Independent reports:

"Five months before the March 2003 invasion, Baroness Symons, then the Trade Minister, told BP that the Government believed British energy firms should be given a share of Iraq’s enormous oil and gas reserves as a reward for Tony Blair’s military commitment to US plans for regime change.

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http://uruknet.info/?p=m77019&hd=&size=1&l=e

[ponda]

BP ‘Awarded’ MASSIVE Iraq Oil Contracts

Is anyone still confused as to why we continue the absurd wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
In Afghanistan, the Director of the CIA has openly boasted that fewer than 100 Al Qaida members remain there, yet there are reportedly 102,000 U.S servicemen and at least 120,000 private contractors still stationed there. Incidentally, the recent “discovery” of vast mineral deposits is being touted as a new justification to stay.
Meanwhile in Iraq, with all justifications for the war now totally debunked, the slow drawdown of troops is commencing, but not before they secure the prize for the corporate masters. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that British Petroleum was “awarded” 80-100 oil wells worth at least $500 million:

http://theintelhub.com/2010/07/20/bp-awarded-massive-iraq-oil-contracts-in-gordon-browns-new-world-order/

[ktlight]

BP ‘Awarded’ MASSIVE Iraq Oil Contracts

Is anyone still confused as to why we continue the absurd wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
In Afghanistan, the Director of the CIA has openly boasted that fewer than 100 Al Qaida members remain there, yet there are reportedly 102,000 U.S servicemen and at least 120,000 private contractors still stationed there. Incidentally, the recent “discovery” of vast mineral deposits is being touted as a new justification to stay.
Meanwhile in Iraq, with all justifications for the war now totally debunked, the slow drawdown of troops is commencing, but not before they secure the prize for the corporate masters. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that British Petroleum was “awarded” 80-100 oil wells worth at least $500 million:

http://theintelhub.com/2010/07/20/bp-awarded-massive-iraq-oil-contracts-in-gordon-browns-new-world-order/

and the opium in Afghanistan is worth $billions.

[Lord Sidious]

The term energy vampire is correct, but raimondo has given it the wrong meaning.
It means far more than he says.

[ktlight]

The term energy vampire is correct, but raimondo has given it the wrong meaning.
It means far more than he says.

And he goes on:

I note with glee that this excellent analysis appears on Andrew Breitbart’s web site, "Big Peace," which used to be devoted to attacking anti-interventionists during the Iraq war and is now, it seems, doing a 180-degree turnabout when it comes to Obama’s War in North Africa. Although I suspect there just may be purely partisan reasons behind this sudden reasonableness, the antiwar cause can’t afford to be all that picky these days – what with the wholesale desertion of the Obama cultists and the revival of "humanitarian" interventionism on the limousine-liberal "left." It is apparently left to conservatives to be the ones to point out that this is indeed a war for somebody else’s oil. As Johnson puts it:

"What does this have to do with America? Absolutely nothing. But don’t expect our government – or our media – to understand that. To defenders of our military adventurism that we have no national security or strategic interest is the very reason that we have to be involved."

[Lord Sidious]

In this context as used by raimondo, energy means oil and the like.
But an energy vampire is an entity that is a parasite that leaches our energies and mostly the negative energy.

[gardunk]

and lest we not forget about the big grab in Afghanistan for rare earths/ which aren't rare!