Remember: It Had Nothing to Do with Oil

Greg Palast, who brought you the 2000 election anomalies in Florida, now has two heretofore secret US Gov't plans for handling Iraqi Oil (thank you, FOIA). Reporting for BBC Newsnight, Palast points out something a little strange: the planning began before 9/11.

Why was Paul Wolfowitz pushed out of the Pentagon onto the World Bank? The answer lies in a 323-page document, secret until now, indicating that the allies of Big Oil in the Bush Administration have defeated neo-conservatives and their chief Wolfowitz. Tonight [last night] BBC Television Newsnight will tell the true story of the fall of the neo-cons. An investigation conducted by BBC with Harper's magazine will also reveal that the US State Department made detailed plans for war in Iraq -- and for Iraq's oil -- within weeks of Bush's first inauguration in 2001.

Read it here (nota bene: for a few more hours, the BBC program will be available online). Note: I don't know why Wolfie's leaving (sniff!), and Palast's story didn't convince me that it's because of his ignominy within the Bush administration. Maybe that's what you write when you're desperate for a segue. We'll see.