No blood for oil
For the last few years, we’ve had to listen to self-righteous right wing assholes try to tell us that the war in Iraq isn’t about oil. No more. Bush must be just about ready to wash his hands of Iraq if it’s finally time to push this law through. If the collaborationist government in Baghdad had any support left among the population, it’ll be gone after this. There’s little chance that this law will be upheld by whatever government(s) emerge from the Iraqi civil war. I doubt that Iraq will be in the same position to muscle their way out of it that Russia has been. There’s no doubt that the oil companies will be able to extort something pretty damn valuable from Iraq in the process.
