In 1954 the French lost Vietnam at the battle of Dien Bien Phu because the
US did not send any assistance. Actually at the end of WWII, the US had
given a good portion of the massive amount of weapons, stored on Okinawa in
1945 for the final land invasion of Japan, to Ho Chi Minh to assist his
program to "nationalize" French Indo-China, which is now the independent
country of Vietnam.
Thus General Giap of 'Nam war fame got his weapons from the US, to drive
out the French and later the US. But it was all very carefully planned. The
result was that the French lost a vast oil-rich property, and the US took
over in South 'Nam. After the contrived Gulf of Tonkin Incident in 1964,
for 10 years US oil companies did a secret seismic oil survey offshore of
South Vietnam from 1965 to 1975 under the guise of spent bombs dropping and
exploding in the sea in "designated areas" from returning US war jets to
the offshore carriers.
Also in 1954 when the French were being driven out of the French north
African colony of Algeria by "home-grown nationalist" uprisings, again the
US refused to help. The result was the French lost the colony in 1962 after
8 years of brutal war and the loss of millions of casualties. When the
newly independent Algeria opened up the desert for oil prospecting, darn if
it wasn't Texaco-Mobile-Chevron who got all the goodies and the French got
nothing. Algeria is one of the largest oil producers in Africa. The French
were starting to see a pattern.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia was ready and
willing to sell its vast supply of Black Sea and newly found Caspian Sea
oil to get some badly needed international cash. But how to get the oil to
the customers? The century-old Black Sea oilfields were already filling up
the narrow Bosporus channel through the ancient city of Istanbul, Turkey
with a daily conga-line log jam of oil tankers. But the Russians found
another way to get the new found oil to their big European customers, the
French and Germans. Just take oil barges and bypass the narrow Bosporus and
simply sail up the wide Danube River from the northwest edge of the Black Sea.
The Blue Danube goes right up past Romania, the old Yugoslavia, the Czech
Republic, Austria and right into downtown oil refineries in Germany and
France just miles from the river. It was a good deal for the Russians, the
Germans and the French. Cheap Russian oil coming direct from the producer,
with no middle-man charging high OPEC or US market prices. That is, until
the Serbian/Kosovo war in 1999.
While nobody was paying attention, the Clinton administration bombed and
dropped all the bridges across the Danube in Serbia. Why did they do that?
That action instantly stopped all river traffic for the next 10 years. So
now what are the Russians, French and Germans to do? They are all losing
money and their economies hit a sharp downturn in 1999. The Russians can't
sell their oil to make quick cash and the French and Germans need to buy
oil from the "American multi-national oil companies" at the higher
double-markup spot market world price.
In 1999, all three countries found a willing go-between who would transport
the oil for cheap. It was Saddam Hussein right next door in Iraq. He needed
the cash he could make as an oil transporter. He couldn't sell his own oil
by 1991 UN edict, but he could legally pipe Russian Black Sea and Caspian
Sea oil right through the Caucasus Mountains using existing Iraqi pipelines
to the Persian Gulf and then the cheap Russian oil is sent direct to the
customers in Europe. Since it wasn't Iraqi oil, its all legal and the
French, Russians and Germans were fat and happy with Saddam's minimal
markup for transport. And if Saddam slipped in some of his own oil in the
process, who's to know.
Then along comes G. W. Bush and stops the process. No more oil is piped
through Iraq. Russia, Germany and France are furious, they are losing
billions. They don't want to go along with Bush on any war in Iraq. Bush
wants to "free" Iraq from that Saddam guy and then the control of Rusian
oil shipments through Iraq would again be by Texaco-Mobile-Chevron. And
even bigger is Standard Oil. But where is Standard? In January 1988,
Standard merged with British Petroleum to form the world's largest
international oil explorer, marketer and shipper. But the merged
conglomerate mega-giant took the name BP-America, later just BP, to make
you think its a British company. Not! Its still multi-national Standard Oil
but now wearing "environmentalist BP-green" just to fool you.
But "the Iraqi oil belongs to the Iraqi's," justifies Bush, but the Germans
and French don't care. They don't want the Iraqi oil, only that cheap
Russian oil coming through the Iraqi pipeline. And of course, without
Saddam, the price for being the middleman who runs the Iraqi pipeline
spigot suddenly shoots up. The Russians lose market share, the Germans and
French pay the higher world market price. The French are now really pissed.
They finally clearly see the devilish 50 year old pattern. The French,
along with most other countries in the world, see US President Bush and
British Prime Minister Blair as the guerilla hitmen snipers for BP, nee
Standard Oil.
That explains why the French want Bush and Blair to take a long flying leap
off a short pier. It wasn't Americans or American policy that had gypped
the French for the last 50 years. It was the "American" multi-national oil
companies. Most foreigners don't distinguish between the hated exploitative
big-oil companies and the Americans. To most foreigners, America is the oil
company. Now you know why the French, Germans and Russians did not go along
with the UN resolution to attack Iraq. Would you willingly vote to double
the price of energy in your country? Now you know why there is oil on your
French Toast. Can you blame them?
If you are not old enough to remember WWII, the Vietnam War or the many
1954 "American oil takeovers" in French Indo-China, Algeria, along with
Venezuela and Iran, then you probably would believe all that media hype
that the War in Iraq is about Iraqi oil. Not so. Its about the only
existing oil pipeline direct from the southern Russian oilfields to the
Persian Gulf. He who owns that pipe controls the world price of oil, simply
by opening and closing the spigot. The vast Russian oil reserves make the
Saudi and OPEC oil fields look lilliputian.
And if you did not know about that Iraqi pipeline then you would believe
that the "shock and awe" tactics were aimed at shocking and fooling the
Iraqi's. Not so. It was aimed at you. While you were watching the fabulous
fireworks on TV as the bombs fell on Baghdad, you did not notice what the
British-American coalition ground troops were really doing. Within hours
the troops had rushed in and taken control of the southern pipeline
terminal and tank farm facilities near the Persian Gulf port of Basra.
Likewise the troops quickly took control of the northern pipeline
facilities at Kirkuk and Mosul in the Caucasus mountains. That was to make
sure that in the confusion of war, the Turks did not rush in and take
control of the area. For decades the Turks have wanted to wrest control of
the Caucasus area from the Kurds so that Turkey would become the only
pipeline for Russian oil. But that is not in the BP-Standard Oil plan.
General Tommy Franks knows who he is working for. He made sure that never
happens.
If you want proof of all this, just read today's headlines. In the coming
weeks, ignore all the left-wing/right-wing hype and spin about what you are
supposed to think and feel about the horrors and tragedy of war and evil
dictators. Stay focused on the actual events that occur, not the spin. Just
notice that the Iraqi War will end when that Iraqi pipeline is securely
under British-American a.k.a., BP-Standard Oil control. For background
information on the history of the hidden oil wars that shaped the 20th
century and explain the current events in the 21st century read "Black Gold
Hot Gold."
http://www.brojon.org/frontpage/FRENCH_TOAST.html
"War is just a racket ... something that is not what it seems to the
majority of people. Only a small group knows what its about. It is
conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the
masses." --- Major General Smedley Butler, 1933
