And that is probably why not one American company since 1998 bid for a contract to develop Iraq’s oil when and if the sanctions were lifted. The development programs were not to begin until the sanctions were lifted.
Cheer up Champ, Bush is going to attempt other ‘Iraqs’ all over the world by military force or forced democracy. The bogus democracies of Georgia, Ukraine etc., have many of the same ‘perks’ as Iraq but with these velvet revolutions, sans blood and guts, it is even more difficult for Americans to understand the full implications of what is taking place.
An entire planet of Stepford Countries held in line by nuclear weapons and the threat of ‘no oil for you’.
Ironically it is communist China, that bastion of repression, which has about the only chance left of freeing the world from this mess. And if they succeed will the Middle Kingdom be no less the tyrant?