What if Bush and Cheney (after leaving office) get appointed to the Iraqi Oil Board by the chief executives of the Western oil companies that have benefited so greatly from Bush’s and Cheney’s oil policies?

What a cushie job for whoever lands a position on the Iraqi Oil Board. It would definitely overshadow Harken Oil (Bush) and Halliburton (Cheney). All that Iraqi oil controlled by Bush and Cheney (and if not them directly, their proxies). Multi-million dollar bonuses assured each year. One’s own OPEC established through the Iraqi Oil Board.

In other words, what if this is the end-game that Bush and Cheney had in mind which they set in motion by invading Iraq and deposing Saddam Hussein? With them sitting on the Iraqi Oil Board, established by an Iraqi legislature serving as a puppet government for Bush, Cheney and the Western oil companies? Literally stealing the Iraqi oil out from under Saddam Hussein as well as the Iraqi people?

Of course, the Iraqi legislators and the Iraqi people may have something to say about this…the final say.

A side note: now that the Iraqi legislature has taken up the “oil issue” and the establishing of a Western-controlled Iraqi Oil Board, Condi Rice and the Bush administration issue a call to both Iran and Syria to join a regional conference to discuss Iraq. Part of a Bush administration timetable, maybe? One step leading to the next and to the next.

Like I said, what if Bush and Cheney plan on having a seat on the Iraqi Oil Board after they finally leave office with them controlling a sizeable chuck of the world’s known oil reserves? I wouldn’t put anything past these crooks with their “hostile takeover” corporate mentality.

I have an opportunity. This press release from the president of Tulane:

Two very special guests will speak at Tulane University this week. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell will speak from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 28 in the Kendall Cram Room on the second floor of the Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life. Powell will speak on his life experiences, leadership, world events, the future of New Orleans and other issues. Powell will speak for 30 minutes and then take questions from the audience.

That’s tomorrow. What questions would YOU like asked? I will try!

Mr. Powell, you could have helped stop the ill-conceived disaster that is Iraq, and you did not. Knowing what you know today, why haven’t you spoken out forcefully against this administration?

Old Klingon adage:

Revenge is a meal best served cold.

My novel insight and contribution to the news…

We all knew Wittington would get even, one day.

(okay, I admit it, I had just given him a copy of my book! But he had just served us a really nice lunch, just ask Rayne!)

Spontaneously, I trust. No whiff of quid pro quo. ;>)

Marcy and Jane…Shuster just said the flu is going aroung there. Be careful you don’t get sick…we need you!

He also said the attorneys feel like we should hear something today about where the jury stands. Then he said “at least by tomorrow”.

How would Shuster know this? The only one’s allowed in the Jury room are court officers. I’d be surprised if they’d jeopardize their jobs by leaking jury info in this leak case. Only the jurors and court officers know where they stand. Can you imagine a juror getting the word out? I can’t.

Adie said: it’s hard to argue with those who think our once noble country is now being run as a dictatorship.

George W. Bush @ pre 9/11 [spring, 2001] — “I don’t have a problem with dictatorships as long as I get to be dictator.”

Mission accomplished.

I believe he said this before he was elected — oops, I mean, before he was selected.

Oh, Lindy’s seeing Powell tonight. I’m seeing Clark. Any questions, besides the obvious one?

Are you seeing Clark at the 92d Street Y in NYC? My sixteen year old is going to the Y to see Clark — she and a few of her classmates were selected to attend, supposedly teens from other high schools will be there too. She is SOOOOO excited!

How do you “edit comment”? I can’t figure out how to do it, but I know other people can. Whenever I hit “edit this comment,” nothing happens.

And yes, preview should be my friend. Sorry.

In a recent interview with CBS, Keith Olbermann said, “Cheney scares the living crap out of me.”

Other tidbits:

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Keith Olbermann, host of the MSNBC news show, “Countdown,” has seen his ratings skyrocket after becoming even more outspoken on the air. (CBS)

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The nightly audio and video assault includes his pick of “The Worst Person in the World” — frequently his arch enemy, conservative Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly. There is also “Oddball,” the day’s catch of weird video. Whipsawing to the serious, he ends each show with a reminder of the unpopular war in Iraq, and borrows the somber sign-off of his hero Edward R. Murrow — “Good night and good luck” — and then seems to make fun of the whole exercise when he crumples his notes and throws them at the camera.

“Countdown” was flying beneath the ratings radar for several years until last August when a speech by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sent Olbermann into a fury.

“He said, essentially, that anyone who was critical of the war on terror, or the war in Iraq, or, indeed, of the administration’s policies, was equivalent to those who appeased Hitler in the ’30s,” he said. “I’m not a big fan of being called a Nazi appeaser, or even a parallel to a Nazi appeaser. I took that personally.”

He was mad as hell and not going to take it any more, he said. And he didn’t. He wrote what became the first of his “special comments.”

For liberals, desperate for a white hot star to answer cable’s popular conservatives, this was a gift. But Olbermann insists he’s just saying what a lot of people really think.

“If a Democrat did those things, I would be out there just as ferociously,” Olbermann said. “I don’t think the Democrats are automatically right. I have many personal conservative views, I have many personal liberal views. I’m concerned about the freedoms that we say that we are protecting.”

Not that such weighty concerns ever are allowed to crowd out sports. He continues a daily hour-long radio show on ESPN, and away from the microphones, baseball still rules. Olbermann, who began collecting at four, is one of the country’s foremost authorities on baseball cards and is a consultant to the Topps baseball card company. He’s got cards that even they have never seen before. His collection dates back to 1863.

But “Countdown”’s popularity has made it the priority today, and Olbermann shows no sign of pulling his punches. Spencer threw out a few names to see how he would react.

Alberto Gonzales:

“I’d really like to see his diploma,” Olbermann said.

Laura Bush:

“Very nice lady. In a knife fight, I think she’d get me. I think she’d kill me. She’s surprisingly capable,” he said.

Paris Hilton:

“If she didn’t exist we’d have to make her up,” he said.

Hillary Clinton:

“I think she went to — to ‘Improve Hillary Clinton’ boot camp in the first six weeks of this year,” Olbermann said. “I think she’s trying real hard”

His quotes on Abu G and The Dick are now my sig line at Daily Kos.

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I just want to say, thank god we have emptywheel on our side.

and Jane!