Ooopsie!

Remember back prior to 2003, back before Bush invaded Iraq based on lies and deceit. Saddam Hussein was trying to sell the massive oil reserves the country sits on top of to Russia and other non U. S. oil folks, for Euros and other currencies that were not U. S. dollars. Back then Exxon Mobil was not the richest company in the world.

Then Herr Bush trumped up a slug fest of lies (or he was gullible enough to swallow ones handed him by others) and led the U. S. into a bombing spree and invasion, creating havoc and a lot of dead folks, otherwise known as a disaster. The next step was to give away portions of the country. In this case Saddam's nationalized oil industry.

What followed was a bunch of no-bid contracts to Cheney cronies. Western oil companies were supposed to get cheap access to that oil, or at least its production. But yesterday it appears the deals were canceled, according to The New York Times. Apparently, scrutiny by the American congress was bringing too much attention to the shenanigans.

Sex, Drugs and Graft: It's Business as Usual at the Interior Department:

The Interior Department is the agency that collects royalties from the oil companies when they drill on our (government) land. Following the model of the Bush administration generally, the department is embroiled in a major scandal. Hey, it's just rock-n-roll, right? (See The New York Times' story.)

Note to the Dude: Yes, history will judge your administration—the most corrupt, incompetent administration in American history.

The Dude explains the difficulty of being top dog: "You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." — George W. Bush in an interview with Katie Couric on CBS News, Sep. 6, 2006.