The Iraq Problem: OIL, OIL, OIL…..
By Dr. Lee Warren, B.A., D.D.
(c) 2002 PLIM REPORT, Vol. 11 #5
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Is
control of oil the reason President Bush wants war against Iraq? Newspaper
accounts throughout the world have addressed this point. Here are a few
examples.
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Washington Post
Sunday, September 15, 2002, published an article entitled “In
Iraqi War Scenario, Oil Is Key Issue” by
writers
Dan Morgan and
David B. Ottaway. The importance of Iraq’s oil has made it potentially one of
the administration’s biggest bargaining chips in negotiations to win backing
from the U.N. Security Council and Western allies for President Bush’s call
for tough international action against Hussein. All five permanent members of
the Security Council — the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China
— have international oil companies with major stakes in a change of leadership
in Baghdad. … “It’s pretty straightforward,”
said former CIA director R. James Woolsey, who has been one of the leading
advocates of forcing Hussein from power. “France and Russia have oil companies and
interests in Iraq. They should be told that if they are of assistance in moving
Iraq toward decent government, we’ll do the best we can to ensure that the new
government and American companies work closely with them.” | |
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Sunday Herald
of Scotland 10/06/02 published an article by Neil Mackay entitled “US
oil at the heart of Iraq crisis”
http://www.sundayherald.com/28285. President Bush’s Cabinet agreed
in April 2001 that ‘Iraq remains a destabilizing influence to the flow of oil
to international markets from the Middle East’ and because this is an
unacceptable risk to the US ‘military intervention’ is necessary .… The
report, Strategic Energy Policy Challenges For The 21st Century, concludes: ‘The
United States remains a prisoner of its energy dilemma. Iraq remains a
de-stabilizing influence to ... the flow of oil to international markets from
the Middle East. Saddam Hussein has also demonstrated a willingness to threaten
to use the oil weapon and to use his own export programmers to manipulate oil
markets. Therefore the US should conduct an immediate policy review toward Iraq
including military, energy, economic and political/ diplomatic assessments.’ | |
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Asia Times
09/28/02 published an article by Francesco Sisci entitled “After
Saddam: Fledgling states, oceans of oil” Original
Link: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DI28Ak03.html “By
toppling Saddam, the United States will gain control of the Iraqi and Kuwaiti
oil reserves, shielding itself from the Saudi threat of raising oil prices and
thus choking the already shaky Western economies. As well, with its hands on
Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil, Washington will be in a better position to influence the
power struggle in Saudi Arabia over the succession, and to make sure the anti-US
elements there who armed and supported al-Qaeda’s terrorists are
eliminated.” | |
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The Guardian
- UK 10-30-2 featured and article entitled “BP Chief Warns US Not To Carve Up Iraq Oil
Riches” by Terry Macalister. Lord Browne, chief executive
of BP and one of New Labour’s favourite industrialists, has warned Washington
not to carve up Iraq for its own oil companies in the aftermath of any future
war. …Britain’s biggest company is reviewing what impact a regime change in
Baghdad would have on its own business and global crude supplies. Both London
and Washington have been lobbied by the UK oil giant, which is concerned that
European companies could be left out in the cold. … “We have let it
be known that the thing we would like to make sure, if Iraq changes regime, is
that there should be a level playing field for the selection of oil companies to
go in there if they’re needed to do the work there,”
said Lord Browne yesterday at a briefing on the company’s results. |
President
Bush asked Congress for approval of a resolution to go to war with Iraq and to
remove Hussein Saddam as leader of Iraq. Congress approved it by an overwhelming
majority although both political parties heatedly debated the issue.
So-called
polls have shown that approximately two-thirds of Americans are willing to have
U.S. soldiers shed blood to liberate Iraq in a UN coalition. Now France, Russia
and China are some of the proponents against the U.S. war on Iraq. Their
feelings are shared by the Islamic world, who bitterly opposes this war.
The
American people are again being led into a war, which has been directed by
propaganda and the public relation firms of Madison Avenue. The corporate news
media is Americans only source of info in this crisis. Most of this info is
biased toward the U.S. government’s policy toward Iraq. In order to evaluate
any situation all truthful pertinent facts are need.
A few
authors and a president warns us about placing a lot of faith in the media. The
Messiah warns us not to be deceived.
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“As is often the case in military history, if a story is repeated
frequently by a legion of writers, it becomes accepted as fact by many readers.
These stories acquire a life of their own and become part of the popular
culture; their factual foundation is no longer questioned, much less critically
evaluated.” (Scott Bowden & Bill Ward “Last Chance for Victory, Pub. Da
Capo, NY, NY)” | |
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Thomas
Jefferson said, “I do not take a
single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier
for it.” | |
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The Messiah
said to His disciples before he was crucified, “Take
heed that no man deceive you.”
(Mt. 24:4). |
Most
Americans are oblivious to the deception taking in the press. Few America are
asking hard questions concerning the Iraq crisis or have the info to look at
this situation more objectively.
To combat
this type of deception and propaganda, one has to be armed with the truth and
facts in order to make an informed decision on the matter. The scripture says
prove all things and hold fast to those things that are true (Jn. 8:32).
In this
brief article, it is my goal to arm you with certain facts so that you can
rightly divided the word of truth from all the lies, misinformation and
disinformation of propaganda.
This
article will also reveal one the “great merchants” of Mystery Babylon the
Great, the OIL cartel (Rev. 18:23) that controls foreign policies of major
nations of the world, as the Apostle John saw in his panoramic vision in A.D.
96, which very few Christian ministers speak about.
All truth
seekers must understand and know for their eternal salvation that Mystery
Babylon the Great is first a great commercial enterprise that controls the earth
economically just as the great ancient city of Tyre was a great trading center
(Isa. 23rd
chp.).
Here are a
few questions that this article will address:
Did you know that Kuwait was part of Iraq for over 400 years before
England partitioned it? It has only been recognizes as a nation since 1960 in
protest by Iraq.
Has Iraq brought this issue up for over 80 years before various
international bodies such as the World Court, League of Nation and the UN?
Did you know that Iraq was baited into invading Kuwait?
These are
a few questions that this article will answer. It is our hope at PLIM that this
article makes you better informed on the issues.
The Oil Cartel
What most
Americans do not understand is that the Big Three Oil Cartel, composed of
corporations in America, Britain and Dutch, has controlled oil directly and
indirectly in the Middle East/Persian Gulf for more than a hundred years.
Beginning
in the 1880’s, which was the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, oil
became an important commodity for many of the European economies. Now the Big
Three Oil Cartel became the great power in shaping the world for their benefit,
as will be shown in this article.
Now the
Big Three-Oil Cartel is composed of the American oil companies led by the
Rockefellers’ Standard Oil monopoly, the British Petroleum (BP) and Dutch
Shell Oil. Before the current mass mergers, in the early 1970’s and 1990’s
these oil companies were called the seven sisters, which were Standard Oil of
California, Indiana, Standard Oil New Jersey, Texaco, Mobil Shell and BP. So,
for all practical purposes this oil cartel (corporations) ruled the world.
Ultimately,
they wanted to gain control over the vast oil reserves throughout the world and
this includes areas in Asia areas. Michel Collon confirms the importance of oil
as a commodity in the world market in his book Monopoly.
He says: “If
you want to rule the world, you need to control oil. All the oil, Anywhere.”
Many in
the Christian world do not understand that the Bible prophesied the current
economic system of the world. In fact the ancient city of Tyre was a great
trading center and prefigured our present economic system.
Ezekiel
describes the king of Tyre as follows: “By thy great wisdom and by thy
traffick (trade) hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up
because of thy riches: Ezek 28:5).” Today modern day Mystery Babylon is a
great trading system where oil is the largest revenue commodity and many of the
great merchants have lifted up their hearts because of their wealth.
This oil cartel is responsible for most of the wars and revolutions in
the 20th
century. For example, it was the oil cartel that financed the Communist
revolution in Russia in 1917. The Russian leader Lenin was told that he would be
financed and armed if he gave the cartel oil concession of the Russian Baku oil
fields.
The reason
that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, which began WWII was that President FDR placed
an oil embargo on Japan for going into Southeast Asia.
Professor
Antony Sutton in his classic book Wall
Street and the Rise of Hitler (WSRH)
that the Standard Oil (Rockefeller Family controlled) group committed treason by
furnishing Hitler’s Germany with oil technology that enabled Germany to start
WW II. Germany had no crude oil supplies. They had to be imported. To produce
gasoline Nazis had to use their huge coal supplies. Standard Oil entered into an
agreement with Germany Corporation I. G. Farben and gave them a patent process
for producing synthetic gasoline from hydrogenation and iso-octane.
Professor
Antony Sutton writes: “Evidence presented to the Truman, Bone, Kilgore
Committees after WW II confirmed that Standard Oil had at the same time
seriously imperiled the war preparations of the United States.” He goes on to say: “Accordingly [concluded the Kilgore
Committee] Standard fully accomplished I. G.’s [German Corporation] purpose of
preventing United States production by dissuading American rubber companies from
undertaking independent research in developing synthetic rubber process (WSRH p.
68).” These are few instances to show the power of the oil cartel Again
truthful historical facts show us that oil has played a very important part in
world history.
The
Apostle James warns us about why wars occur. James wrote that it was because of
greed. “From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence,
even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and
desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye
ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it
upon your lusts (Jam. 4:1-3).”
Due to the
space limitation this article will only provide a brief history of British oil
interests in Iraq for the last 100 years fomenting revolution and strife to get
control of the oil of Iraq.
The
British in 1880-89 entered into an agreement with Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah (1896
– 1915) of Kuwait to partition the rich oilfields of Rumalia from Iraq. Kuwait
had been a province of Iraq for over 400 years. None of the local population had
any say in this agreement. Thus, the British became the protectorate of Kuwait.
The
British invaded Iraq in 1915 and setup two puppets governments in Iraq one in
the north and the south. In order to maintain control over Iraq and the
oilfields, the British had to constantly kept strife going in Iraq by using the
Kurds minorities. President Bush in the 1990’s used the Kurds in the same
manner to try to overthrow Saddam Hussien.
Britain
used their secret intelligence agency MI6 to encourage the Kurds to revolt
against Iraq and setup autonomous state. The British told the Iraqis that the
Kurds want their independence. This resulted in a two-year war (1922-24) between
them, which Iraq won and in which the Kurds leaders were executed. During this
period the British continued to maintain their control over the oilfields.
Italy,
France and Russia wanted Iraq to have their independence by the laws of the
League of Nations. This angered the Dutch Shell Petroleum and British Petroleum
because they thought they would lose their oil concession that was up in 1996.
The League of Nation awarded the Musul oilfields to Iraq, which further undercut
British influence there.
Again the
British stirred up the Kurds to revolt two more times, in 1925 and 1932 in order
to reverse the League of Nations’ decision concerning the Musul oilfields.
Both times Iraq defeated these revolts. The
British intelligence again stirred up the Kurds in 1965. It should be noted that
Kurds have been constantly been used by the British and USA to stir up strife in
Iraq with a hope get getting a sovereign nation of their own, which never
happen.
Finally,
in 1932 the League of Nations granted Iraq their independence with full control
of the Musul oilfields. The British oil companies stayed for 12 years and then
in 1948 they were forced to leave Iraq. However, they did not leave Kuwait.
Now Iraq
Premier Hassan Adul Kassem, in June 1961, demanded that Britain return Kuwait to
Iraq. He said that it had been apart of Iraq for over 400 years and the Turkish
Ottoman Empire recognized it as a part of Iraq. He wanted to negotiate,
according to the terms of Lausanne Conference (1923).
Now
Premier Kassem was mysteriously assassinated and the British government declared
Kuwait an independent government in 1962. Troops were sent to Kuwait to prevent
Iraq from retaking it.
Various
premiers of Iraq continued their fight before the League of Nations and its
successor the United Nations to get back Kuwait. This proved futile for Iraq,
for the British were bitterly opposed to this. In fact they signed a defense
agreement with Kuwait.
Both the
American and British Oil companies refused to give up their goal of controlling
these vast oil fields of Iraq. Britain continues to push the Kurds independence
so that they can get their hands on the Musul oilfields.
Dr.
Coleman in his book Deception by Diplomacy stated the reason that
USA-British armed Iran and Iraq and caused them war with each other. He states, “The war was designed to weaken both Iraq and
Iran to the point that they would no longer be a credible threat to the British
and the U.S. Oil interest, and as a military force, and they would no longer
pose a threat to Israel (p. 46).”
This is
the reason that in 1990 the U.S. tricked Suddam Hussein into invading Kuwait,
which was rightly Iraq. British and the U.S. oil interest want this oil.
President Bush and his oil cabinet members want to finish off Saddam
Hussein under the guise that he has weapons of mass destruction and take control
of these oil fields again.
The reader
must keep mind that these British and American oil interests are the great
merchants of Mystery Babylon and their purpose is to weaken the nations of the
earth (Isa. 14:12) and establish a one world socialist government that they
would control, which include all resources of the earth, as prophesied in the
book of Revelation (Rev. 13th
17th
–18th
chp.). No matter what devilish man-made system man devises, Dr. Sutton stated: “it is a system
of plunder, organization device to get everyone living at the expense of
everyone else, while the elitist leaders, the rulers and the politicians, scalp
the cream off the top.”
A brief
history of how the U.S. armed Saddam Hussein will show that American oil
interest are part of the secret government that controls this country, which the
voting middle class does not control.
There is
no doubt that Hussein is a dictator, but it has always been the policy of the
oil cartel to put dictators in power in a country as long as they go along with
the cartel’s program.
Finally,
those that have been brainwashed into thinking this war will bring peace to the
region fail to understand the scriptures. King David writes in the Psalm that
Yahweh Elohim is the only one able to bring peace. “He maketh wars to
cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in
sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am Yahweh:
I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth (Ps
46:9-10).”
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