Obama says "We will not claim another nations resources" at West Point Nov 2009 - Oh Really?

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had succeeded at everything he d tried foras long as he could remember. H e just hadto find a way to make this work.He turned to the morning's papers. Hewasn't th e only one making headlines. Avariety of cabinet members seemed to beleading the news.The first column in The New York Timesw as a story about Colin Powell winning anagreement from Arab nations to modifythe Iraqi sanctions by more sharply con-trolling cash and strategic items sought byHussein while easing the strictures on ci-vilian supplies.Beneath th e surface w as a battle O'Neillhad seen brewing since the NSC meetingon January 30. It was Powell and hismod-erates at the State Department versushard-liners like Rumsfeld, Cheney, andWolfowitz, w ho were already planning thenext war in I r a q _ a n d the shape of a post-Saddam country.

Documents were being prepared by theDefense Intelligence Agency, Rumsfeld'sintelligence arm, mapping Iraq's oil fieldsand exploration areas and listing compa-nies that might be interested in leveragingthe precious asset.One documentjJieadedf^Foreigri Suifor|)~ lists^onipa-167 :-_ - -..- .-;-.. .


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jiies__from thirty countries ^ includingFrance, Germany, Russia, and the UnitedKingdom - - their specialties, bidding his-tories, and in some cases their particularareas of interest._An attached documentmaps Iraq with markings for "supergianLoilfield," "other oilfield," and "earmarkedfor production sharing/' whil e demarkin gthe largely undeveloped southwest of thecountry into nine "blocks" to designateareas for future exploration. The desire to"dissuade" countries from engaging Jn."asymmetrical challenges" to the UnitedStates as Rumsfeld said in his Januaryarticulation of the demonstrative value of a

ptive attack - matched with plans.for how the world's second largest oil re-serve might be divided among t V p w n r l H Vcontractors made for an irresistible combi-O'Neill later said.Already by February, the talk was mostly,about logistics. Not the whv. but the how

and how Quickly. Rumsfeld, O'Neill re-called, was focused on how an incidentmight cause escalated tensions l ike theshooting down of an American plane in the.regular engagements between US. fighters,and Iraqi antiaircraft batteries and whatU.S. responses to such an occurrencemight be. Wolfowitz was pushing for the

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arming of I raqi opposit ion groups^ andsending in U.S. troops to support and de-fend their insurgency. He had written inForeign A f f a i r s m a g a z in e in 1999 that "theUnited States should be p rep a red tocommit ground forces to protect a sanc-tuary in southern Iraq where the opposi-tion could safely mobilize."D u rin g his confirmation hearings,Powell had said that a rm in g the I raqi op-position would be logistically difficult an dul t imately unsuccessful in topplingS a d d a m . Since then, Powell had discov-ered that he wa s ou tn u m bered.S o, O ' N ei l l m a rv eled as he read the N ewY o r k Times story, Powell ha d taken th ebatt le pu blic using the issue of sanc-uons . "The message I 've consistentlyheard is that overdoing it with the sanc-n on s gives [Saddam] a tool that he is usingagainst us and really is not weakening~:m," Powell told the Times. But he said hisoutl ine of a p la n for n a rrowin g the sanc-nons would be criticized in Washington.~The charges will come that it is weak-rning," he said. "There will be a lot ofpeople w ho will w a n t to hear more."O ' N e i l l had witnessed many State-Tersus-Pentagon struggles over the years,: ~ e n a m o n g his own friends H en ry

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Maps and Charts of Iraqi Oil FieldsT h e se a re documen t s t u rned over by the Comm erce Depar tment , unde r a March 5, 2002 cour t order a s aresu l t o f Judic ia l Wa tch ' s Freedom of In forma t ion Ac t (FOIA) law sui t concern ing the a c t iv i ties of t he Chene yEnergy Task Force. The documents conta in a map of Iraqi oi l fields, pipel ines, ref iner ies an d term inals , aswel l as 2 char t s deta i l ing Iraqi oi l and gas pro jec ts , an d "Fore ign Sui tors for Iraqi Oi lf ie ld Con t r ac t s . "T hedocumen t s a re da ted March 2001. Click here to v iew th e pres s r e lease .

Iraq Oil Map Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts - Par t 1 Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts - Par t 2 United Arab Emirates Oil Map United Arab Emirates: Major Oil and Natural Gas Development Projects Saudi Arabia Oil Map Saudi Arabia: Major Oil and Natural Gas Development Projects

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In Part 3 of Obama's Speech Nov 2009 a t West Point, he said thefollowing: (TIME 8:23)You Tube - Pr. Obama - West Point Afghanistan (3 )ht tp : / /www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPiXzv4poFO&feature=player_embedded

QUOTE"W e wiiS no t claim another nations resources."O h, Really????? Then tell me what happened here?Cheney's Energy Task Force was Planning, PRIOR to the attack on Iraqand very early in the Bush admin, to divide up Iraqi oil. Do you call thatnot claiming other nations resources, Obama?