The Real Oil Reason Behind the War on Iraq
(That Congress Doesn’t Know)
by Jim Bronke
Introduction:
In the long history of developing something technological there is the potential for good and the potential for not so good. Concern is obvious for weapon systems but not as so for oil drilling systems. Both Scott Ritter, the UNSCOM inspector in Iraq, and former Deputy Chief of Mission to Iraq Joe Wilson have mentioned that before the first Gulf War Saddam Hussein had accused Kuwait of slant drilling in to Iraqi oil fields. This would be to the Rumalia oil field that overlaps both nations(see map). Our news media treated this with deliberate fog. Details of the squabble were withheld and the usual spin is “rumblings in the Middle East again over oil”. After Hussein went in to Kuwait, Bush 41, in his war rhetoric, accused Hussein of attempting to take control of all the Middle East oil and suggested that this was his first step in a giant plan to then go to Iran and Saudi Arabia. Indeed, it seems that both Ritter and Wilson are both unaware of the extent of the oil industry involvement in Kuwait and the likelihood of U. S. treachery. Not that their knowledge of it would have changed anything. Essentially, it is American oil companies that are in Kuwait doing the drilling. The Kuwaitis have always had no knowledge of oil drilling and preferred to let the outsiders do it and to satisfy themselves with a Production Sharing Agreement (PSA’s) that gave them a percentage of the take. The oil drilling technology is such that it is easy to steal oil from someone without their knowing.
Attachment 1 is a map of the Iraq-Kuwait land and the oil fields, marked in black, that dot the area. The field in question is the Rumalia oil field that juts like a finger down from above(in Iraq) with just the tip penetrating in to Kuwait.
Attachment 2 is the Kuwaitis response in September of 2000 to the Hussein letter accusing them of stealing oil. It is important to break down the arguments in this letter.
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Line 1 has the date September 19, 2000. 1 year before 9-11 and a year and three months before the first public discussion initiated by Senators Lieberman and McCain to ”attack Iraq”.
Line 1 has the date September 19, 2000. 1 year before 9-11 and a year and three months before the first public discussion initiated by Senators Lieberman and McCain to ”attack Iraq”.2."The United Nations is monitoring our operations in the area. The issue is about a well that is part of an oilfield shared by the two countries; our well's daily production is 43,000 barrels. All drilling and extraction of oil by the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation is done by conventional methods and is 100 % within Kuwait's territories."
"The United Nations is monitoring our operations in the area. The issue is about a well that is part of an oilfield shared by the two countries; our well's daily production is 43,000 barrels. All drilling and extraction of oil by the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation is done by conventional methods and is 100 % within Kuwait's territories."