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Chilcot’s Blind Spot: Iraq War Report Buries Oil Evidence, Fails to Address Motive. Why did the UK go to War?
… Most important of these is oil. Buried in deep in volume 9 of the 2.6 million-word report, Chilcot refers to government documents that explicitly state the oil objective, and outlining how Britain pursued that objective throughout the occupation. But he does not consider this evidence in his analysis or conclusions. Oil considerations do not even appear in the report’s 150-page summary.
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Section 10.3 of the report, in volume 9, records that senior government officials met secretly with BP and Shell on at several occasions (denied at the time) to discuss their commercial interests in obtaining contracts. Chilcot did not release the minutes, but we had obtained them under the Freedom of Information Act: they are posted here. In unusually expressive terms for a civil service write-up, one of the meeting’s minutes began, “Iraq is the big oil prospect. BP are desperate to get in there” (emphasis in original).
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As the UK’s strategy evolved with changing circumstances, two priority objectives remain consistently emphasised in the documents: to transfer Iraq’s oil industry from public ownership to the hands of multinational companies, and to make sure BP and Shell get a large piece of that.
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In the end, attempts by Britain and the US to force a law through that legalised oil privatisation failed. The law was not passed, largely because of a popular Iraqi campaign against it. It was then decided to sign long-term contracts even without any legal basis for doing so. Iraq´s oil industry is largely now run – illegally – by companies like BP, Shell and ExxonMobil.
10 Comments on "Chilcot’s Blind Spot: Iraq War Report Buries Oil Evidence, Fails to Address Motive. Why did the UK go to War?"
forbin on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 9:20 am
why ? because we were asked to by the USA – namely bush , and tony B liar had to make a pay back
oh and HMG was lied to
Forbin
nothing changes …
penury on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 11:50 am
Shock[ please read Smedley Butlers views in his book. You will find nothing ever changes. The book is ot of date but still relavent.
PracticalMaina on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 2:56 pm
Because Tony Blaire, Bush Cheney ect were all essentially butt-sluts for the oil bizz.
PracticalMaina on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 2:57 pm
We need politicians that are not such cheap prostitutes
Anonymous on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 5:37 pm
The UK went to war, because their amero-zionist masters told them to. Sure, the details may be far more complex and varied, but the ultimate reason, is simply they that were ordered to.
onlooker on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 5:48 pm
“The UK went to war, because their amero-zionist masters told them to. Sure, the details may be far more complex and varied, but the ultimate reason, is simply they that were ordered to.” Absolutely, let us not forget War is profitable. It is really about the Deep Police State together with the totally corrupt economic Western banking system. They call the shots in the West. Remember Eisenhower he said “Beware the Military Industrial complex.” Well no military industrial complex without money. MONEY RULES.
Boat on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 10:18 pm
onlooker,
That explains alot. Another Jew hating racist. Are you and greggiet one and the same? One parrot or two. The question of the day. Deep state Jews run the free world. lol
GregT on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 11:19 pm
Boat,
You are without a doubt the most stupid person that I have ever encountered in my entire life.
Not a fucking clue.
PracticalMaina on Fri, 22nd Jul 2016 10:43 am
Boat, I saw no reference to any race or religion in onlookers statement, you are the one who took it there, I know its tough for southern boys to understand this, but there is more to the world than race and religion.
Zionism is not a religion, read and repeat
Philip Arlington on Fri, 22nd Jul 2016 4:03 pm
Tony Blair didn’t go to war for oil. He was bored by economics. He delegated economic policy to Gordon Brown.
Trying to look for a single reason for complex geopolitical decisions isn’t sophisticated, it is reductive. Blair went to war for many reasons, most of them to do with his personal psychology.