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Originally Posted by AlienQ
Whats that translate to you?
It translates to me that those people wanted to increase the prices.
The clients (Oil Buyers) would be the same that would not change.
"people of the region" as you so say were Islamic Fundamentalists.
Analylise that for a minute.
In the intelligence community it was a lesser of two evils.
Higher prices or Business as usual were really the two choices.
Monarchy was business as usual in this scenerio.
Thats why Intelligence is a failure when used offensivly. It fucks up everytime because some dickhead wants to keep a price cut on his backers.
Iraq is no different than Iran cept this time around its being done with Military might and not an intelligence slant.
The USA and Britians goal and the world goal ultimatly will be for Iraqi's to sell oil to the world for profit in Iraq.
Yes the Shaw...
He was the best of both worlds and thrown into exile by religeous fundamentalists.
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A nationalized petroleum industry would not mean higher prices since every oil producing country would still be competing for sales (the majority of the oil the US imports comes from Canada and until the mid-80s petroleam production was a nationalized industry). That's just corporate propaganda.
What happened in the 50s isn't ancient history and should be looked at when discussing the motivations for current global conflicts - especially when 'speading freedom and democracy' is one of the justifications used.