Iraq June 14, 2007

This is unsustainable, and does not tip to winning any substantial effort. If you're hoping the world will explode in ~2008 and we'll find ourselves with another good round in Iraq, you may be surprised. A hand on the tap is what they are paying for. They didn't want Saddam's oil when they went there. They wanted to control the flow of it to make the economic process we're about to face more controlled. As much oil as they want comes from Iraq, and no more nor much less.

This condition allows them to control about when peak oil will show up and to weather any potential oil fiascos that may occur, plus giving them a hand in OPEC meetings where the WB and IMF can't go.

Instead of staying on this course and continuing to violate Iraq and ourselves and the world at large, we should leave Iraq immediately and begin work on our own nation becoming oil free. It is unimportant what happens to the oil after that point.

Is this a holdoff period during which we are to shift?

What would have been the effect if the 1996 PNAC meeting were an open letter to the US People c/o the world? Do the bigmath on that. Where would we be?