"Oil?? Who Said Anything About Oil? Somebody Cooking Something?"

U.S. Ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad, told Americans to suck it up and accept the U.S. presence in Iraq in an interview with the LA Times. "This is our destiny, given our preponderance in the world, our role in the world and because of our successes," he stated. Success stories abounded in other news media today as Haliburton was shown to waste over $75 million on an oil pipleline project. Plans are in the works to waste more, as well. And while U.S. backed Jawad al-Maliki is scrambling to put together a governing coalition, not suprisingly the issue of who will control Iraq's oil reserves and production continues to plague the occupied nation.