Political Moves
The White House continues to provide a reason du jour for bombing Iraq. The United Nations Security Council continues to quibble about what should be done if Iraq doesn’t abide by proposed inspection resolutions. Russian and French governments seek guarantees for their oil investments in Iraq. A delegation of Iraqi officials visited Moscow to appeal to business people and officials to resist any pressure from the United States and Britain.
United States Special Forces are now heading to the jungle of Columbia for a $94 million counterinsurgency program to protect the 500-mile pipeline, which transports 100,000 barrels of oil a day for Occidental Petroleum of Los Angeles.
Just because governments choose to play charades and pretend that ‘the war on terror’ has nothing to do with oil, it certainly doesn’t mean that we have to play along too, does it?