The snippets that Leopold claims prove his contention, do no such thing.
Read the document. It sounds like a treatise for Israeli dominance of the middle east, not at all how Leopold falsely characterizes it.

This sentence sheds some light on just exactly what the concern about oil relates to:

“Saddam Hussein has also demonstrated a willingness to threaten to use the oil weapon and to use his own export program to manipulate oil markets. This would display his personal power, enhance his image as a “Pan Arab” leader supporting the Palestinians against Israel, and pressure others for a lifting of economic sanctions against his regime.”

I don’t see any concern about big oil’s interests, jus...

The snippets that Leopold claims prove his contention, do no such thing.
Read the document. It sounds like a treatise for Israeli dominance of the middle east, not at all how Leopold falsely characterizes it.

This sentence sheds some light on just exactly what the concern about oil relates to:

“Saddam Hussein has also demonstrated a willingness to threaten to use the oil weapon and to use his own export program to manipulate oil markets. This would display his personal power, enhance his image as a “Pan Arab” leader supporting the Palestinians against Israel, and pressure others for a lifting of economic sanctions against his regime.”

I don’t see any concern about big oil’s interests, just Israel.

More:

“Sanctions that are not effective should be phased out and replaced with highly focused and enforced sanctions that target the regime’s ability to maintain and acquire weapons of mass destruction… This issue of arms sales to Iraq should be brought near the top of the agenda for dialogue with China and Russia.”

What do WMDs have to do with big oil? Who is concerned about WMDs in the M.E.?

Yet more:

“Once an arms-control program is in place, the United States could consider reducing restrictions on oil investments inside Iraq.”

In other words its all about removing the “threat” to Israeli dominance, just like the current Iran situation.

It keeps on going:

“Saddam Hussein could be a greater security threat to U.S. allies in the region if weapons of mass destruction (WMD) sanctions, weapons regimes, and the coalition against him are not strengthened. Still, the maintenance of continued oil sanctions is becoming increasingly difficult to implement.”

It’s all about fretting that the world community will tire of the sanctions and Saddam Hussein will be able to support resistance to Zionist expansion. How does one get ‘war for oil’ out of that? Leopold clearly misrepresented this document. Deception, pure and simple.

Leopold has a strange interpretation of the d

The snippets that Leopold claims prove his contention, do no such thing.
Read the document. It sounds like a treatise for Israeli dominance of the middle east, not at all how Leopold falsely characterizes it.

This sentence sheds some light on just exactly what the concern about oil relates to:

“Saddam Hussein has also demonstrated a willingness to threaten to use the oil weapon and to use his own export program to manipulate oil markets. This would display his personal power, enhance his image as a “Pan Arab” leader supporting the Palestinians against Israel, and pressure others for a lifting of economic sanctions against his regime.”

I don’t see any concern about big oil’s interests, jus...

The snippets that Leopold claims prove his contention, do no such thing.
Read the document. It sounds like a treatise for Israeli dominance of the middle east, not at all how Leopold falsely characterizes it.

This sentence sheds some light on just exactly what the concern about oil relates to:

“Saddam Hussein has also demonstrated a willingness to threaten to use the oil weapon and to use his own export program to manipulate oil markets. This would display his personal power, enhance his image as a “Pan Arab” leader supporting the Palestinians against Israel, and pressure others for a lifting of economic sanctions against his regime.”

I don’t see any concern about big oil’s interests, just Israel.

More:

“Sanctions that are not effective should be phased out and replaced with highly focused and enforced sanctions that target the regime’s ability to maintain and acquire weapons of mass destruction… This issue of arms sales to Iraq should be brought near the top of the agenda for dialogue with China and Russia.”

What do WMDs have to do with big oil? Who is concerned about WMDs in the M.E.?

Yet more:

“Once an arms-control program is in place, the United States could consider reducing restrictions on oil investments inside Iraq.”

In other words its all about removing the “threat” to Israeli dominance, just like the current Iran situation.

It keeps on going:

“Saddam Hussein could be a greater security threat to U.S. allies in the region if weapons of mass destruction (WMD) sanctions, weapons regimes, and the coalition against him are not strengthened. Still, the maintenance of continued oil sanctions is becoming increasingly difficult to implement.”

It’s all about fretting that the world community will tire of the sanctions and Saddam Hussein will be able to support resistance to Zionist expansion. How does one get ‘war for oil’ out of that? Leopold clearly misrepresented this document. Deception, pure and simple.

Leopold has a strange interpretation of the d

The snippets that Leopold claims prove his contention, do no such thing.
Read the document. It sounds like a treatise for Israeli dominance of the middle east, not at all how Leopold falsely characterizes it.

This sentence sheds some light on just exactly what the concern about oil relates to:

“Saddam Hussein has also demonstrated a willingness to threaten to use the oil weapon and to use his own export program to manipulate oil markets. This would display his personal power, enhance his image as a “Pan Arab” leader supporting the Palestinians against Israel, and pressure others for a lifting of economic sanctions against his regime.”

I don’t see any concern about big oil’s interests, jus...

The snippets that Leopold claims prove his contention, do no such thing.
Read the document. It sounds like a treatise for Israeli dominance of the middle east, not at all how Leopold falsely characterizes it.

This sentence sheds some light on just exactly what the concern about oil relates to:

“Saddam Hussein has also demonstrated a willingness to threaten to use the oil weapon and to use his own export program to manipulate oil markets. This would display his personal power, enhance his image as a “Pan Arab” leader supporting the Palestinians against Israel, and pressure others for a lifting of economic sanctions against his regime.”

I don’t see any concern about big oil’s interests, just Israel.

More:

“Sanctions that are not effective should be phased out and replaced with highly focused and enforced sanctions that target the regime’s ability to maintain and acquire weapons of mass destruction… This issue of arms sales to Iraq should be brought near the top of the agenda for dialogue with China and Russia.”

What do WMDs have to do with big oil? Who is concerned about WMDs in the M.E.?

Yet more:

“Once an arms-control program is in place, the United States could consider reducing restrictions on oil investments inside Iraq.”

In other words its all about removing the “threat” to Israeli dominance, just like the current Iran situation.

It keeps on going:

“Saddam Hussein could be a greater security threat to U.S. allies in the region if weapons of mass destruction (WMD) sanctions, weapons regimes, and the coalition against him are not strengthened. Still, the maintenance of continued oil sanctions is becoming increasingly difficult to implement.”

It’s all about fretting that the world community will tire of the sanctions and Saddam Hussein will be able to support resistance to Zionist expansion. How does one get ‘war for oil’ out of that? Leopold clearly misrepresented this document. Deception, pure and simple.