{"id":15405,"date":"2011-04-19T12:21:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T18:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15405"},"modified":"2011-04-19T12:22:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T18:22:14","slug":"paul-bignell-secret-memos-expose-link-between-oil-firms-and-invasion-of-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15405","title":{"rendered":"Paul Bignell: Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Paul Bignell<\/strong><br \/>\nTuesday, 19 April 2011<\/p>\n<p>Plans to exploit Iraq&#8217;s oil reserves were  discussed by government ministers and the world&#8217;s largest oil companies  the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/graphic-iraq-oil-2269811.html\">Graphic:    Iraq&#8217;s burgeoning oil industry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The papers, revealed here for the first time, raise new questions over Britain&#8217;s involvement in the war, which had divided Tony Blair&#8217;s cabinet and was voted through only after his claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/secret-memos-expose-link-between-oil-firms-and-invasion-of-iraq-2269610.html\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq&#8221; By Paul Bignell<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Bignell Tuesday, 19 April 2011 Plans to exploit Iraq&#8217;s oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world&#8217;s largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show. Graphic: Iraq&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15405\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-40t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15409,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15405\/revisions\/15409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}