Jordan was found deeply involved in the Oil for Food scandal exposed this recent year. Does anyone else see the connections with Cheney's (and the other neocons) plans for eventually setting Jordan up with power over Iraq and oil profits (along with a few other Arab countries) bought and paid for by taxpayers monies?

http://slate.msn.com/id/2111195/
The Oil-for-Food Scandal
Meanwhile, the United States more or less openly condoned Saddam's multibillion-dollar illegal oil trade with American allies such as Jordan, Turkey, and Egypt. "This was a bit of a special arrangement here," former U.N. Ambassador John Negroponte explained in an April Senate hearing, to avoid "unnecessarily and unfairly penaliz[ing] the people of Jordan [and other countries] from the negative economic consequences of sanctions on Iraq."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4025057.stm

Companies in 'oil-for-food scam'

A former senior official at one of Jordan's major banks told us that his bank alone had processed at least $100m of fraudulent contracts.

Businesses trading with Iraq, he said, routinely paid hidden surcharges of about 10% of the value of the deal.

Jordanian businesses we spoke to confirmed that illicit commissions on trade with Saddam Hussein's Iraq were common practice - so common in fact they were barely concealed.

In this plan originally devised in '96, has Cheney, Perle, Feith, Wurmser and Wolfiwitz paved the way for Jordan to eventually rule Iraq??

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Anthropol...s/Hashemite.htm

Regime Change, Literally - Jordan's King May Rule Post-War Iraq
Commentary, William O. Beeman,
Pacific News Service, Feb 19, 2003

In September 2002, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly suggested that a post-war Iraq be unified with Jordan into a "Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and Iraq." The story was dismissed by many Middle East experts as a wild rumor. However, the rumor has surfaced again, and it is given new credence by the revelation of a document written in 1996 by Bush White House policy makers now associated with Wolfowitz and Cheney.

The authors of the report included Richard Perle, now chairman of the Defense Science Board; Douglas Feith, now U.S. undersecretary of defense for policy; and David Wurmser, author of "Tyranny's Ally: America's Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein," and director of Middle East Studies of the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

As it appears that BushCo aligned Iraq's oil with Jordan, what else might Jordan provide in this Middle East scheme.... to over power the Iraqi population also??

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KHA209A.html

"Washington then will be able to offer the new Hashemite kingdom as a model for other Arab states, combining what the Arab masses see as the advantages of a traditional monarchy with the benefits of a US alliance," the report says.

"The potential combination of educated Iraqis, US aid and military assistance, and oil revenues might help the new state become a beacon for the Arab world to follow," it adds. Were more states to adopt this example, the geopolitical influence of both Saudi Arabia and Egypt would decline, making it easier for Washington to deal with them.

Benefits for Jordan: "King Abdullah will vastly expand his role and prominence in the region with a joint Hashemite state, becoming the second-most important US ally after Israel. In addition to his huge territorial gains, he also will get a chunk of Iraqi oil.