This video from the USA is called Fahrenheit 9/11 – Halliburton Scene.
As if the US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, etc. are not already enough, George W. Bush’s vice president Dick Cheney is pushing for war in Iran as well (to destroy evidence of his Halliburton’s selling nuclear components to Iran?).
From British daily The Guardian:
Cheney pushes Bush to act on Iran
· Military solution back in favour as Rice loses out
· President ‘not prepared to leave conflict unresolved’Ewen MacAskill in Washington and Julian Borger
Monday July 16, 2007The balance in the internal White House debate over Iran has shifted back in favour of military action before President George Bush leaves office in 18 months, the Guardian has learned.
The shift follows an internal review involving the White House, the Pentagon and the state department over the last month. Although the Bush administration is in deep trouble over Iraq, it remains focused on Iran. A well-placed source in Washington said: “Bush is not going to leave office with Iran still in limbo.”
See also here.
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*Papers Detail [Energy] Industry’s Role in Cheney’s Energy Report*
Posted by: “hapi22” hapi22@earthlink.net robinsegg
Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:21 am (PST)
*One of the participants in Dick Cheney’s energy task force was **Steve
Griles ( a former mining lobbyist)**. **While he was on Cheney’s energy
task force**, **Griles represented **Caithness Energy, L.L.C. — a
privately held Independent Power Producer specializing in power
generation. **Bush then appointed Steve Griles as the No. 2 official in
the Interior Department**, which is the federal Dept. responsible for
protecting our environment. **Steve Griles pled guilty to obstructing
the Jack Abramoff investigation and is now in prison. **
*
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo writes:
At the dawn of the Bush administration, Vice President Dick
Cheney’s 2001 Energy Task Force was the hot social ticket for
leading luminaries of future GOP scandals.
Once a closely-held secret, the Washington Post today publishes
the dance card
for the task force. Cheney, citing the principle of executive
confidentiality, took the public’s right not to know all the way
to the Supreme Court when Congress tried to learn the attendance
list published today. It comes as no surprise that the list was
heavy on energy-industry big shots, including Enron’s Kenneth
Lay, who got a private meeting with Cheney
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on April 17, 2001:
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One of the first visitors, on Feb. 14, was James J. Rouse,
then vice president of Exxon Mobil and a major donor to the
Bush inauguration…
The list of participants’ names and when they met with
administration officials provides a clearer picture of the
task force’s priorities and bolsters previous reports that
the review leaned heavily on oil and gas companies and on
trade groups — many of them big contributors to the Bush
campaign and the Republican Party.
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And not just them.
Read the full Must Read here.
>>
Read the Washington Post article “*Papers Detail Industry’s Role in
Cheney’s Energy Report*” at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/17/AR2007071701987.html?nav=rss_politics
SEE THE NAMES and corporate affiliations of the people who were members
of Cheney’s energy task force, at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/cheney_energy_task_force.html
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2.
*the environmentalists & Cheney’s energy task force*
Posted by: “hapi22” hapi22@earthlink.net robinsegg
Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:37 am (PST)
Cheney claims he met with environmentalists as well as lobbyists and
CEOs for the oil and gas corp[orations when drafting the Bush
administration’s energy policy.
Well, yes and no.
If you call inviting people in to have tea and cookies AFTER the policy
has already been set, well, then I guess one could say the
environmentalists “participated.”
P.S. I do not believe — by any stretch of the imagination — that
“executive privilege” is intended to protect secret meetings between the
President or VP with campaign contributors who want some goodies and
payback for their contributions.
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**Papers Detail Industry’s Role in Cheney’s Energy Report**
by Michael Abramowitz and Steven Mufson/
The Washington Post
July 18, 2007; Page A01/
At 10 a.m. on APRIL 4, 2001, representatives of 13 environmental
groups were brought into the Old Executive Office Building for a
long-anticipated meeting. Since late January, a task force headed by
Vice President Cheney had been busy drawing up a new national energy
policy, and the groups were getting their one chance to be heard.
Cheney was not there, but so many environmentalists were in the room
that introductions took up “about half the meeting,” recalled Erich Pica
of Friends of the Earth. Anna Aurilio of the U.S. Public Interest Group
said, “It was clear to us that they were just being nice to us.”
A confidential list prepared by the Bush administration shows that
Cheney and his aides [beginning on Feb. 14,] HAD ALREADY HELD at
least 40 meetings with interest groups, most of them from
ENERGY-PRODUCING industries. By the time of the meeting with
environmental groups, according to a former White House official who
provided the list to The Washington Post, the initial draft of the task
force was substantially COMPLETE and President Bush had been briefed on
its progress.
One of the first visitors, on Feb. 14, was James J. Rouse, then vice
president of Exxon Mobil and a MAJOR DONOR to the Bush inauguration; a
week later, longtime Bush supporter Kenneth L. Lay, then head of Enron
Corp., came by for the first of two meetings. On March 5, some of the
country’s biggest electric utilities, including Duke Energy and
Constellation Energy Group, had an audience with the task force staff.
Read this and the rest at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/17/AR2007071701987.html?nav=rss_politics
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