Interesting stuff. Axis of Oil left out a couple of things, though. GWBush maligned 62 rogue nations who were going to 'get theirs', and it just so happens the top 4 on the list are the two top opium and the two top oil producers. Afganistan, N. Korea, Iraq and Iran.

And the Iraqi oil was divvied up this way...they have 5-7 trillion dollars worth in the ground. Blair announced it is 1.5 trillion, so Iraq lost 3/4 of its oil wealth to British Petroleum in one sentence. The money from the sale of the remaining quarter will be put in a U.N. trust fund (according to Blair), and the Iraqis will have access to that money only for rebuilding infrastructure according to UN guidelines (sterilization programs, communist indoctrination in schools, etc.). And the Iraqis will have to borrow the money from their own trust fund to do any rebuilding...borrow it from the World Bank at 40% interest.

But I've been over this ground before. The UN is the benefactor in the 'rogue states' situation. Oil and opium. Fuel the UN army with oil and break down western society with heroin, then do the mop up.

DG