This week's issue of The Onion contains a pair of "Point-Counter-Point" essays on the war. The first is a rather straight antiwar message called "No Blood for Oil." (In fact, it's the most serious-sounding thing I've ever read in The Onion.) The second is called "Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?"

I keep hearing the anti-war protesters chant, "No blood for oil! No blood for oil!" But what they never seem to say is exactly how much oil we're talking about. Don't you think that's pertinent information? Are we talking a gallon of oil for every 10 gallons of blood? Or is it more like 30 gallons of oil for every pint of blood? Because if it's the latter, maybe a blood-oil exchange would be a good idea....

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