Say It Isn't So

The sovereign, independent Iraqi government is to award fat contracts to fat British and American companies, including Shell, BP, Exxon Mobil, Chevron and Total. The US State Department was kind enough to help the sovereign, independent Iraqi government with "template contracts and suggestions on drafting", though naturally without being involved in the decisions. One does not, after all, undertake regime change simply so one can interfere in the affairs of whatever sovereign, independent government one may later choose to prop up with a hundred and fifty thousand foreign fighters and the occasional civilian contractor. Nevertheless, the awarding of the contracts by the sovereign, independent Iraqi government to its beloved invader and its beloved invader's attack poodle will provide grist for conspiracy theorists like the ex-chair of the Federal Reserve. Shame on such people, wherever they may be, for the black, crude impurity of their thoughts.