War In Iraq

The war.
The war in Iraq.
Why this war?
It is clear to me why.
An attack by a bunch of murderous Saudi Arabians results in the invasion of Iraq.
President Bush worked for “Red” Blount during Blount’s run for the Senate. He worked for “Red” when he should have been working for the Texas Air National Guard.
We are not concerned with that, however.
We’re talking about “Red”. His company more specifically.
The company owns a bunch of smaller companies.
They make chainsaws. They make wood chippers. Things like that.
They also build things.
They built a huge wind tunnel in Tennessee.
They built an indoor ocean for the Navy.
They built a University for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Ah…they worked for Saudi Arabia.
Who else worked with Saudi Arabia?
Westinghouse in Pennsylvania; Fisher Controls from Iowa and Anderson Greenwood from Texas; Bingham Willamette from Oregon and Allis Chalmers from Wisconsin. There were also the Elliott Company in Pennsylvania, Dresser-Clark Industries in New York, and DeLaval Turbine in New Jersey.
Saudi Arabia has entrusted supervision of a considerable part of its building program to American companies and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and they have enlisted the help of such engineering/contracting giants as Fluor Corporation, Bechtel Corporation, Ralph M. Parsons Company and Brown and Root, Inc.
In 1976 more than 5,000 representatives of major contractors for example, were at work on Aramco projects being designed in the United States. American specialists in Fluor's Houston office are expended more than 70,000 man-hours a week on the Eastern Province gas-gathering program. Bechtel's Houston office had about 300 specialists there on projects like the 800-megawattGhazlan power-plant, a $370-million job that paid for 600,000 American man hours in home-office work.
The impact of the development programs will extended far beyond the initial contracts. At materials-procurement time, for example, most engineers quite naturally specify those materials with which they're most familiar.
American equipment installed at the infrastructure level has a way of breeding requests for similar and compatible equipment and those requests can be expected to carry on into the development of private sector industry.
The building of the NGL (Natural Gas Liquids) centers were designed and managed by major American companies and will need instrumentation from California, compressors from Pennsylvania, boilers from North Carolina, heat exchangers from Texas, 30,000-hp motors from New York and vibration sensors from Nevada as an example. Also included is over $100-million worth of construction equipment, all of it from the United States.
Bechtel, headquartered at San Francisco, held a multi-billion Saudi government contract to oversee construction of an industrial park at Jubail. At the same time, the Ralph M. Parsons Company, based in Pasadena, California, had a $6.5 million contract to draw up the plan for a complex on the other side ofthe Peninsula: the Red Sea port of Yanbu'. Yanbu' has extensive additions to its port facilities and, eventually, an industrial base.
The gas-gathering plant is apparently linked to Yanbu' by an 800-mile pipeline—designed and engineered by an American company.
Parsons had lined up: Arthur D. Little, Inc., of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Skidmore, Owings and Merrill of Los Angeles; DeLeuw, Cather International of Chicago and Tetra Tech, Inc., of Pasadena.
Parsons built Saudi Navy facilities at both Jubail and Jiddah, as well as the Navy Headquarters at Riyadh.
A number of American companies—including DeLeuw, Cather; Perkins and Will of Chicago; The Architects Collaborative of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Blount Brothers of Montgomery, Alabama, and J. A. Jones of Charlotte, North Carolina—have part, or have had part, in designing and building facilities at Khamis Mushayt, Tabuk and elsewhere in the kingdom.
I could go on – but in the end – all this money is invested. The entire wealth of Saudi Arabia is on the line along with a good portion of the complete financial capital of the United States. There they were - the Saudis were ready to take their place in world politics and wield their power –maybe get married a few more times and possibly employ some Saudi Arabians instead of Filipinos, Pakistanis and Kenyans – no matter that they hadn’t lifted a finger to help the Palestinians nor any other poor Arab nation –including their neighbors in Egypt - during their buying spree – and along comes Sadaam Hussein and he announces that he is ready to export oil at bargain basement prices.
Whoa, there horsey!
Suddenly – his ability to export through Kuwaitis cut off or slowed. His work with Turkey gets tied up in embassies. There is a war with Iran.
Even still – he just won’t quit.
Then – there it is – in spite of it all he is ready to begin pumping and selling the stuff around the world. Even the United Nations thinks it’s a good idea.
Only the Saudis don’t think so.
Too much is at stake.
Too much.
And so…with George Bush in the White House all the cronies are ready and willing to go and before you know it – the Saudis have bought themselves a brand new American War to go along with all of their other American projects.
As a reward new and ambitious projects are going on in Saudi Arabia and the same companies are building them. The same companies are working in Iraq and low and behold – the price of oil is at an all time high.
To top it all off the Saudis have announced to us that they are going to pump as much oil as fast as they can. They actually said that they are going to increase production to ever higher levels so that they can bring the price down because they don’t want to make all that money that fast.
I mean – it’s just too much – isn’t it?
So – if you wanted to know ‘Why?’ –now you do.
By the way – ‘Where’s Osama’?