Why would Ashcroft, Rice, Rumsfeld et al, all ignore the terrorism threat? Because they were focused on the OIL. They Thought oil, they planned oil, they created a threat to get oil.
Not like I didn't tell you all this a long time ago. Thing is, with Cheney's "secret energy meetings" came the tip of the iceberg.......

Judicial Watch and the Sierra Club ask "Why has the administration gone to such lengths to avoid disclosing how it developed its new energy policy?"

>"As early as April 17, 1995, the Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. petroleum giants realized that "Iraq is the biggie" in terms of future oil production, that the U.S. oil companies were "worried about being left out" of Iraq's oil dealings due to the antagonism between Washington and Baghdad, and that they feared that "the companies that win the rights to develop Iraqi fields could be on the road to becoming the most powerful multinationals of the next century."

And even this....bluntly now:
>" Cheney is said to have once remarked that the country that controls Middle East oil can exercise a "stranglehold" over the global economy. "
So, guess who moved on to get it, steal it, take it over.....
"You're either with us or against us"......making us all feel so threatened that Sadam was going to pulverize us if we didn't stomp him out immediately. Oh this war was for OIL allright.

The truth is out now. I think the American people are going to be pretty pissed, especially since gas prices went UP. (Bring our soldiers home!)

>"One-time Bush speech writer David Frum wrote in "The Right Man," his 2003 biography of his boss, that the United States' "war on terror" was designed to "bring new freedom and new stability to the most vicious and violent quadrant of the Earth -- and new prosperity to us all, by securing the world's largest pool of oil."

Cheney, Energy and the Iraq <invasion>