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Gary Vogler: The 2003 Iraq War & The Israeli Energy Agenda

  • Writer: Truth Over Comfort
    Truth Over Comfort
  • Jun 4
  • 5 min read


Gary Vogler is a 1973 West Point graduate, retired army reserve lieutenant colonel, retired ExxonMobil executive with 21 years, five months of Iraq oil planning at Pentagon followed by 75 months in Iraq under DOD – appointed Oil Minister during first 10 days in Baghdad in April 2003.


In todays interview I spoke to Gary Vogler, we discussed his research into the Israeli energy agenda and the 2003 Iraq invasion. He discusses his personal experiences of being involved in Iraqi oil planning, working with Neo-Conservatives like Doug Feith, Paul Wolfowitz , Scooter Libby, and others, the destruction of the Iraq-Syria pipeline and the overall silent policy of assisting Israel with new energy sources. Most people have never heard of the Kirkuk-Haifa pipeline, or that the Shah of Iran had a secret pipeline with Israel that stayed in use even after the 1979 revolution until the 90s, neither had Gary until he began putting the pieces together, after his time in Iraq and research for his first book, about Iraq and the politics of oil.




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"Makovsky served as special assistant for Iraqi energy policy in the Office of Secretary of Defense and Director of Essential Services in the Washington office of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the postwar Allied entity that governed Iraq." Chief Executive Officer Michael Makovsky - Tuesday, April 9, 2013 JINSA



"The pipeline from Iraq’s northern oilfields around Kirkuk to the Turkish terminal of Ceyhan was attacked early Friday when unknown assailants blew up a section near Baiji. The attack came just two days after the key export route was finally reopened following the US-led war that ousted Saddam Hussein." Iraqi infrastructure comes under attack Parts of Baghdad went without water and fires continued to rage on a key northern oil pipeline on Sunday 17th August 2003 Aljazeera




"US intelligence sources confirmed to The Observer that the project has been discussed. One former senior CIA official said: 'It has long been a dream of a powerful section of the people now driving this administration [of President George W. Bush] and the war in Iraq to safeguard Israel's energy supply as well as that of the United States." Israel seeks pipeline for Iraqi oil This article is more than 22 years old US discusses plan to pump fuel to its regional ally and solve energy headache at a stroke Ed Vuillamy in Washington Sun 20 Apr 2003 The Guardian


"At the same time that Israel and Egypt signed the second disengagement agreement on 1 September 1975, the United States and Israel signed an agreement that provided for, inter alia, a U.S. promise to assist Israel in securing an oil supply should Israel not be able to purchase oil on the international market.1 If the United States were prevented from purchasing oil, under an embargo for example, the United States would supply oil to Israel under the same guidelines that applied to the International Energy Agency (lEA)." 1979 Memorandum of Agreement between the United States and Israel on Oil US Gov (1975) Page 1









“After the Iranian revolution, the national oil company continued to sell 40 million to 75 million barrels of oil a year to Mr. Rich’s company, abiding by previous agreements with the government of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Mr. Rich continued to buy oil from Iran until 1994, when he sold his company. 


“They respected the contracts,” Mr. Rich told Mr. Ammann. “We performed a service for them. We bought the oil, we handled the transport and we sold it. They couldn’t do it themselves, so we were able to do it.”


At the same time, Mr. Rich kept Iranian oil flowing to Israel even after the new government in Tehran severed diplomatic relations with Israel.


From 1973 to 1993, Mr. Rich said he was Israel’s most important oil supplier, delivering 7 million to 15 million barrels a year.” Book on Marc Rich Details His Iran Oil Deals


“More than three months earlier, ISIL attacks had brought oil exports through the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline through which Iraq used to export the bulk of Kirkuk’s 550,000 barrels per day (bpd) production, to a complete halt” How ISIL changed the oil map of Iraq The rise of ISIL and the fall of Mosul drastically changed the balance of oil and power in Iraq. Omar Al-Nidawi is an Iraq analyst based in Washington DC and the director for Iraq On 1 Dec 2017 Al-Jazeera 


“Relatively cheap Kurdish oil has become a favorite grade for European refiners over the past year, reaching plants from Israel and Croatia in the Mediterranean to Poland and Germany.” Glencore taps into Iraqi Kurdistan with $300 million oil deal By Dmitry Zhdannikov










Deadly Betrayal: The Truth about Why the United States Invaded Iraq by Dennis Leon Fritz





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