“Yeah, I was in the old Executive Office Building for those meetings, at one time or another all of us were. BP, Chevron, Conoco-Phillips, Shell, Exxon-Mobile, US oil and Gas… but only the top managers, the CEs were purposely kept away. That was the red flag, the “plausible deniable” factor. All of us knew what was at stake, we’d seen the reports coming out of the Caspian Basin, all of which added a sense of urgency to Cheney’s plan. Rumsfeld showed us SAT images of the oil fields while Wolfowitz did most of the selling, some nonsense about how our workers would be safe, how they’d be embraced, all the while pushing us for timetables on how long it would take us to get the oil flowing again, as if we had a crystal ball. The Brown and Root guys had detailed maps of Iraq’s energy infrastructure; you could tell they’d been in it with the CIA lady from the beginning. It was one big circle jerk, and I just kept nodding, wondering what the hell we were doing here, I mean the Bushies had just taken office, and the scenario they outlined, no one actually believed it would happen. Five months later the planes struck the Twin Towers and everyone knew. The Senate Hearings that followed… what a joke. I mean, no one was even placed under oath.”
~Anonymous Oil Executive, on Vice President Dick Cheney’s secret Energy Task Force meetings
An industry insider source from Steve Alten’s “The Shell Game”
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"Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one."
~Friedrich Nietzsche



