Wait – There’s Oil Involved!?
Hilarious headline and sub-head on the Washington Post’s main page just now:
War May Unshackle Oil in Iraq
Hussein’s ouster could be a bonanza for long-banished U.S. oil firms.
Well no shit, Sherlock. Still, sanctions didn’t seem to stop Dick Cheney and Halliburton making 28 million bucks off Iraq. The story, by Dan Morgan and David B. Ottaway, includes this gem:
Although senior Bush administration officials say they have not begun to focus on the issues involving oil and Iraq, American and foreign oil companies have already begun maneuvering for a stake in the country’s huge proven reserves of 112 billion barrels of crude oil, the largest in the world outside Saudi Arabia.
Oh for god’s sake. Let’s get this straight: if administration officials haven’t begun to focus on oil (and who do they really think they’re kidding?), they’re morons. If this paragraph is the bullshit it seems to be, then they’re liars (stop the presses).
Of course, there’s the very real possibility that they’re both.
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Posted to General Rants • 2002.09.15 (Sun) • 19:28
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