The United States has asked Israel to check the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq to the oil refineries in Haifa. The request came in a telegram last week from a senior Pentagon official to a top Foreign Ministry official in Jerusalem.israel's unequivocal support for the war is getting 40% of iraq's oil??
The Prime Minister's Office, which views the pipeline to Haifa as a "bonus" the U.S. could give to Israel in return for its unequivocal support for the American-led campaign in Iraq, had asked the Americans for the official telegram.
[[comment: "official telegram" is code for something else]]
The new pipeline would take oil from the Kirkuk area, where some 40 percent of Iraqi oil is produced, and transport it via Mosul, and then across Jordan to Israel. The U.S. telegram included a request for a cost estimate for repairing the Mosul-Haifa pipeline that was in use prior to 1948. During the War of Independence, the Iraqis stopped the flow of oil to Haifa and the pipeline fell into disrepair over the years.
God tell me i read that wrong. it didn't say transport SOME, it said transport IT.
i'll have to search around and find out what the hell is going on here. but this certainly can't be a feather in our cap of winning hearts and minds of iraqis.
and given that israel blocked intel coming to the U.S. right before 9/11, one has to wonder, just how good a friend israel really is, and to whom its loyalties lie: bush or America. because they certainly can't be both.
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