Vice President **** Cheney and the invasion of Iraq.

Cheney served as the Secretary of Defense from March 1989 to January 1993 under President George H. W. Bush. He directed the United States invasion of Panama and Operation Desert Storm in the Middle East. When the Iraq Desert Storm was going in favor of the coalition and the United States, Cheney then advised President George H. W. Bush not to go into Bagdad and overthrow Hussein’s regime. Cheney evidently was aware that Iraq was a throw together country made up after the First World War made up of Kurds, Sunnis, and Shiite. They had a long history of animosity towards each other.

When George Walker Bush was elected to the presidency and **** Cheney to the vice presidency something occurred that is of interest happened early in 2001. A White House document shows that executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001.

The Washington Post, shows that officials from Exxon Mobil Corp., Conoco (before its merger with Phillips), Shell Oil Co. and BP America Inc. met in the White House complex with the Cheney aides who were developing a national energy policy, parts of which became law and parts of which are still being debated.

Cheney is closed mouth about the context of that meeting, but something occurred that changed the mind of Cheney towards Iraq. Saddam Hussein was not a cooperate player to American energy companies. True that he did the bidding of the United States by attacking Iran because the Iranians overthrew the wicked Shah (the oil companies puppet) and installed the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Donald Rumsfeld Member of the President's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control during the Reagan Administration (1982 - 1986). Rumsfeld, at the time was Ronald Reagan's special envoy to the Middle East. In the midst of the Iran-Iraq in meeting with Saddam Hussein during a visit to Baghdad, Iraq in December 1983 there is strong feeling that Rumsfeld gave Saddam Hussein chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. WMD’s. Please see the book, The exception to the rulers: exposing oily politicians, war profiteers, and the media that love them. by Amy Goodman and David Goodman.

In later years, this meeting would be strongly downplayed by Rumsfeld and highlighted by his opponents, as relations with Hussein's regime deteriorated.


I suspect that at that meeting with Cheney and the oil barons, that something had to be done in order to bring Iraq under control of the oil companies. 9/11 gave them the perfect opportunity to sell the American public on invading Iraq. By invading Iraq, Cheney’s old company Halliburton along with Bechtel had no bid contracts from the government.
See the movie (DVD) “Iraq for Sale”.