Musings on the side effects of being an oil-aholic..

Currently much newspaper print has been devoted to the apparent linkage of hurricane Katrina that has just drowned New Orleans and the Iraqi debacle.. the quoted common cause is the world's total energy reliance on oil with the subsequent knock on effects of global warming and the need to secure foreign oil reserves. Now the US and her allies has always backed up its Iraqi action on the basis of the war on terror, human rights and the need to dispose a dangerous dictator whilst strongly rejecting any accusations of oil grabbing.


Additionally I am sure that you would be hard pressed to find many US officials linking global warming and the effects of Hurricane Katrina. Another analogy that is increasingly drawn over the other (US) side of the Pacific is the comparison of today's Iraq with the conflict in Vietnam. This is, for everyday Americans a very compelling argument to pull out of Iraq and one that I feel the Bush government will play on to extract itself from Baghdad as soon as a US friendly government is in place… regardless of the reality of the 'democracy' they will have installed:
(Cartoon: Thanks to Steve Bell and The Guardian, again!)