I've done some searching and can't seem to find any mention of a fantastic documentary called The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror.
Gerard Ungerman and Audrey Brohey, the documentary's producers, describe the film on their web site:
According to O.E.C.D. data, the Middle-East holds 70% of the world oil reserves while North America and Europe will run out of oil in 2010 at their current rate of production. Emerging technologies might provide alternatives to oil used for energy but these innovations will do nothing to remedy the need for oil used in plastics which accounts for about half of oil's uses.
In the wake of Vice-President Dick Cheney's 2001 Energy Task Force, is it a coincidence if George Bush targeted Iraq in its so called "war-on-terror", a country known to possess the second largest oil reserves in the world?
There's more from their web site below the fold...
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