It's for the oil dummy!
Posted at 10:25am on Mar. 17, 2008 Paranoid Democrats Vindicated At Last!
Sith Lord Cheney and his oil minions, Evilburton, finally unmasked!
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Ok, not really, but news of Cheney's trip to Iraq and the way the NYT describes his purpose for being there, will surely dredge all that nonsense up again:
Vice President Dick Cheney made an unannounced trip Monday to Baghdad, where he plans to push Iraqi political leaders toward opening the country’s vast oil fields to international companies, a senior Bush administration official said.
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"Exploiting and controlling the Iraqi oil fields have been part of the American scheme for more than four years," said Hassan al-Rubaie, a member of parliament and senior member of Mr. Sadr’s political alliance. "Our presence in the parliament and among the Iraqi people will work with other national forces to stop this scheme."
See? "Itzallabouttheoilidiot!"™
It won't matter (and isn't mentioned in this piece [shock of all shocks]) that Cheney has been planned for this trip for quite some time. It' apparently irrelevant that he is "bound for Oman, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the West Bank and Turkey -- [and] will also pursue US diplomatic efforts to isolate Iran and prod US oil-exporting allies to help rein in skyrocketing prices," and that Iraq is just a "piece" of the master plan the White House left out of the press to improve Cheney's chances of getting in and out before a couple martyr-wannabes could put together a vest or a Pennske full of explosives to greet him when he touched down there.
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