More on Iraq - Jay Reding - who has an excellent Minnesota-based blog - has excellent rejoinder to a really dumb San Fran Chronicle editorial:
Someone needs to be bonked over the head with a copy of Clausewitz. Exactly what benefit would oil companies get from a war in Iraq? Let's apply Occam's Razor here: could a cartel of oil companies secretly be manipulating US policy from the sidelines without there being one shred of evidence supporting it? If Enron can't keep a secret, what makes Mr. Morford think that Chevron or Exxon can any better - especially when it's something as monumental as this? Then again, one should never look to deeply into someone's paranoid rantings.It's a long piece, and it's all worth a read. Posted by Mitch at January 11, 2003 05:08 PM