Iraq’s Oil and the Saudi Welfare State

Investigative journalist, Greg Palast has a theory purportedly supported by a secret, 323-page U.S. State Department plan for Iraq’s oil. Palast first came to my attention when he uncovered efforts in Florida to illegally disenfranchise black voters in advance of the 2000 election. He has continued to be a journalistic gadfly whose reports appear in the Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom and on the BBC.

Now he claims to have in his possession a secret State Department plan that he alleges proves the U.S. invaded Iraq because of its oil, but not to secure it for its own consumption. Instead, the purpose of the invasion was to keep Iraq’s oil off the market.

That’s right, OFF the market.

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