Private Empire: ExxonMobil And American Power - Plot & Excerpts
“All of Iraq’s oil belongs to all the people of Iraq,” Feith said. The Bush administration had “not yet decided on the organizational mechanisms” through which the Iraqi oil industry might be restructured after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, but he felt that he should “address head-on the accusation that, in this confrontation with the Iraqi regime, the Administration’s motive is to steal or control Iraq’s oil.” That charge was commonly made, but it was “false and malign.” By the time of his Senate testimony, Feith had already become a punching bag for opponents of the Bush administration and its foreign policies. He was a tall, extroverted man with a mop of graying hair and round wire-rimmed glasses. His articulate self-confidence was of the type associated with student council vice presidents, and it grated on some people similarly; General Tommy Franks, then in command of all U.S. military forces in the Middle East, told colleagues at the time that he considered Feith “the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the Earth.”
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