"This group of people (not the same ones who are working to get the whole region Balkanized) don't care whether or not that oil comes to the US. They just want to make sure they are the ones who get to make a profit from it in whatever way they can (especially before oil becomes obsolete as a source of energy)"

You're right about that Carol. They are not in Iraq ,as many Americans hope, to secure oil for American consumption. They are there to provide the infrastructure, especially pipelines and the logistics of moving that oil from point A to point B. They don't care where point B might be. They're business is pipelines.

On a global scale, their business is energy. Not necessarily the commodity itself, but the transport of that energy. To control the delivery is as good or better than owning the resource. If you control the energy supply, you control the world.

These men have no national loyalty and George Bush is just their pawn. It is Cheney who pulls the strings in the white house and Cheney is ruthless in his pursuit of power and wealth.