In Praise of the Protesters
Interesting points about why this war isn't for oil:
"Daniel Yergin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian on the world oil industry, puts Iraq's share of the world oil supply at just 3 percent. And most of it flows to Europe and Asia -- not the U.S., which gets 90 percent of its oil from North and South America, West Africa and the North Sea.
Yergin writes in the Financial Times that due to technological advances in production methods, he predicts an increase in the world's oil reserves to a total of 175 billion barrels -- 50 percent more than Iraq's reserves and two-thirds that of Saudi Arabia's.
Where's all that oil coming from?
Not the Gulf.
It's from Canada.
And they're against this war, too.
So the oil issue is my minor quibble with protesters.
This isn't "Blood for Oil."
That was Gulf War I.
This one is just about blood. And dominance."