The Great Iraq Oil Grab

New Yorker’s Jane Mayer reported on a top secret National Security Council document dating back seven months before the terror attacks that gave some insight into the vice president’s thinking:

It directed the N.S.C. staff to cooperate fully with [Cheney’s secretive] Energy Task Force as it considered the “melding” of two seemingly unrelated areas of policy: “the review of operational policies towards rogue states,” such as Iraq, and “actions regarding the capture of new and existing oil and gas fields.”
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