Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show. (...)Jeg kan ikke se nogen rygende pistol her. UK har besluttet sig for at gå i krig, britiske oliefirmaerne går så til udenrigsministeriet og får det til at lobbye for, at de får en bid af kagen, når den bliver delt.
Five months before the March 2003 invasion, Baroness Symons, then the Trade Minister, told BP that the Government believed British energy firms should be given a share of Iraq's enormous oil and gas reserves as a reward for Tony Blair's military commitment to US plans for regime change.
The papers show that Lady Symons agreed to lobby the Bush administration on BP's behalf because the oil giant feared it was being "locked out" of deals that Washington was quietly striking with US, French and Russian governments and their energy firms.
Det er det, udenrigsministerier gør. Det danske udenrigsministerium laver sgu næsten ikke andet end at promovere danske firmaer i udlandet. Det er en stor lobbyvirksomhed for erhvervslivet. Man kan her se, at USA har franske og russiske firmaer med i spillet, og Frankrig og Rusland var da vist imod krigen. Så gik USA i krig for franske og russiske olieinteresser?
Jeg er med på, at særinteresser kan have politisk indflydelse. Men nationalt holder den stadig ikke.
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