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Islam-Online | Live Dialogue with Kathy Kelly

The following statement by Kathy Kelly is consistent with the remarks of John Perkins (see next post) that the House of Saud is at risk of crumbling, due to lack of favor throughout the Arab world. Therefore, in order to protect US empire and its huge dependency Mid-East oil resources, the US needs to take and maintain control of Iraq -- even at the cost of thousands of lives from the less fortunate (poor and under-educated) social class in the US, as well as untold tens/hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians.

Kathy Kelly: "I believe that people who lead defense corporations, oil industry corporations and various financial institutions in the United States, (corporations which have multinational bases), are quite aware that Iraq has the second largest oil reserve in the world and that if explorations in other parts of Iraq were undertaken it could well prove to be the world's largest oil reserve. US corporate controllers want very much to be able to recycle the petrodollars yielded from oil sales back into their own defense companies, financial institutions, and energy related corporations. Presently, there may be some concern as to whether Saudi Arabia can continue to be a reliable ally or client state to further these interests. It seems plausible that the US would like to accomplish a leadership change in Iraq, --not necessarily a regime change -- that they are looking for the 'man on the white horse' who can rule Iraq but assure that Iraq's precious and irreplaceable resources and potential oil revenues will be used to bolster US and other multinational corporate interests. To frustrate such interests is, in the eyes of some corporate managers, a serious 'crime' and it will be punished in ways that will deter others from taking any steps to undermine US corporate interests.

May I suggest Milan Rai's very fine book, _War Plan Iraq_ which was just released by Arrow Publications (www.justicenotvengeance.org) and will soon be published by Verso Press for an extremely helpful analysis in response to your insightful questions"

posted by David @ 1:30 AM