It's the Oil, Stupid!

Secular Shiites in Iraq Seek Autonomy in Oil-Rich South
By EDWARD WONG
The push by powerful Shiite politicians for an autonomous
region in southern Iraq poses a direct challenge to the
nation's central authority.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/international/middleeast/30basra.html?th&emc=th

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It does not take all that much sophistication to figure out that it was in large measure the desire to dominate Mid East Oil supplies that thrust the U.S. into Iraq. And it is likely that oil once again will rip what is left of Iraq apart into 3 parts -- the Kurds to the North, Shiites to the South, and chaos in the middle where the insurgency will presumably linger on -- without oil, electricity, water, and sewage control. All this looks to be quite a mess with worse in prospect. Don't figure oil, as promised initially by the Bush administration, will pay our way there afterall.
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