nellardo's Journal: War: What Is It Good For?

This is so disgusting (from the British Observer:

The leader of the London-based Iraqi National Congress, Ahmed Chalabi, has met executives of three US oil multinationals to negotiate the carve-up of Iraq's massive oil reserves post-Saddam.

Apparently, the INC (which is supported by Bush et al.) plans to "reward" the US for ousting Saddam "He Uses Weapons of Mass Destruction on His Own People" Hussein. To me, this makes it look like the U.S. is being paid to oust Mr. HUWOMDOHOP Hussein. We're not the world's police force - we're the world's hired thugs.

But what's almost worse is why this made the papers in the first place:

Disclosure of the meetings in October in Washington - confirmed by an INC spokesman - comes as Lord Browne, the head of BP, has warned that British oil companies have been squeezed out of post-war Iraq even before the first shot has been fired in any US-led land invasion.

British oil is whining that they aren't being invited to play. I'm not sure which I find more disturbing: the indication that no one would be complaining if the INC was offering the oil more broadly? Or that it takes whining by a big money special interest to get legitimate objections aired by the legitimate press (and even then, it's only to say the U.S. is willing to share its future toy oil fields)?