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9/11- Inside Job and Oil War(Connecting Dots with Oil) (IRAQ (Bush decided…

- - - - 3rd November 1998 - attacks stop US oil pipeline: Up to 80 cruise missiles were fired at Afghanistan and Sudan in August. An American-funded training project in Afghanistan has closed down as a result of the US cruise missile attack on the country in August. The programme was funded by the American oil company, Unocal, which was once hoping to be involved in building a gas pipeline across the country from Turkmenistan to Pakistan. (BBC News, "US attack closes US project", 3 November 1998)
        
        2nd January 1999 - US strikes targets in Afghanistan. No sooner had the Taleban won a series of victories in the north, than the US launched an attack on camps in Afghanistan run by Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, who had allegedly masterminded the bombing of US embassies in East Africa. ( BBC News, "Afghanistan: Campaign of conflict", 2 January 1999.)
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        15th March 2001 - allies invade Afghanistan. The British-based Jane’s International Security reported March 15, 2001 that the new American administration was working with India, Iran and Russia “in a concerted front against Afghanistan’s Taliban regime.” India was supplying the Northern Alliance with military equipment, advisers and helicopter technicians, the magazine said, and both India and Russia were using bases in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan for their operations.
        (Janes International Security News, "India joins anti-Taliban coalition", 15 March 2001.)
        
        11th September 2001 - the war comes home to America. Immediately after the attacks on September 11, 2001, U.S. officials accused Osama bin Laden. Since the man would reside in Afghanistan, it provided a pretext for George W. Bush to attack and invade Afghanistan.
        
        16th September 2001 - Bush prepares America to wage war overseas. “I want to remind the American people that the prime suspect's [Osama Bin Laden] organisation is in a lot of countries,” Bush told reporters on the White House lawn. ( BBC News, "America widens 'crusade' on terror", 16 September 2001.)
        
        18th September 2001 - diplomat reveals 9/11 “response” began before 9/11. A former Pakistani diplomat has told the BBC that the US was planning military action against Osama Bin Laden and the Taleban even before last week's attacks. ( BBC News, "US 'planned attack on Taleban'", 18 September 2001.)
      - https://moraloutrage.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/talking-points-on-the-trans-afghanistan-pipeline/
- - - - 1999-Halliburton CEO Richard Cheney publicly admits Peak Oil in speech to the London petroleum club, stating that "by 2010 we will need on the order of an additional 50 million barrels a day ... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize lies.”(NEO, "Saudis have lost the oil war")
        
        26th January 2000-Project for a New American Century founded by Cheney, Scooter Libby, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush, Paul Wolfowitz, and other top neocons states that US control of Iraq transcends the issue of Saddam Hussein, states a "new Pearl Harbor" is needed to accomplish their foreign policy and military goals(Mother Jones, "Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How we got into Iraq")
        
        Spring of 2001-First cabinet meeting of the new Bush - Cheney administration includes discussion of how they are going to attack Iraq. The Cheney energy task force included examination of maps of Iraqi and other Persian / Arabian Gulf oil fields and which companies had drilling rights. The energy task force happened around the same time that warnings that 9/11 was imminent were pouring into the White House from close US allies (Mother Jones, "Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How we got into Iraq")
        
        7 October 2002-As the United States prepares for war with Iraq, a report commissioned
        early in George Bush's presidency has surfaced, showing that the US knew it was running out of oil and foreshadowing the possible need for military intervention to secure supplies.
        [ Sidney Morning Herald, "Oil has always been top of Bush's foreign-policy agenda" ( Sidney Morning Herald, "Oil has always been top of Bush's foreign-policy agenda")
        
        2003-Following the invasion, the Bush Administration implemented orders that have the effect of law allowing for the privatization of Iraq’s state-owned enterprises, 100 percent foreign ownership of Iraqi businesses, and repatriation of 100 percent of profits earned in Iraq by foreign companies. These orders were enshrined in the October 15 Iraq constitution.(FPIF, "In Iraq'It's the Oil, Stupid")