One might think they were looking for an excuse to invade Iraq, and the neo-cons were correct when they said that WMDs were just the excuse.

And good Americans and Iraqis are dying for Cheney's oil companies. Kinda makes one sick, doesn't it?

"There's something almost obscene about a map that was studied by senior Bush administration officials and a select group of oil company executives meeting in secret in the spring of 2001. It doesn't show the kind of detail normally shown on maps — cities, towns, regions. Rather its detail is all about Iraq's oil.

"The southwest is neatly divided, for instance, into nine "Exploration Blocks." Stripped of political trappings, this map shows a naked Iraq, with only its ample natural assets in view. It's like a supermarket meat chart, which identifies the various parts of a slab of beef so customers can see the most desirable cuts .... Block 1 might be the striploin, Block 2 and Block 3 are perhaps some juicy tenderloin, but Block 8 — ahh, that could be the filet mignon."

Borrowed this from Grondine's post.

Arf