Speaking of which, I was listening the other week to Amy Goodman & Greg Palast pitching off Palast's latest opus during the WBAI fundraiser. They were reviewing all the standard explanations for the war - which boiled down to getting Iraq's oil. Palast mentioned that in his book he reports that Bush deployed a Shell alum to run Iraq's oil industry who promptly reversed Bremer's intentions to privatize - he wanted Iraqi oil to remain in state hands. Then they quickly moved on to more crowd-pleasing stuff.
Does anyone know more about this? Why would a Shell oil guy want to keep Iraqi oil in state hands? Goodman, of course, never asked Palast to elaborate, but it seemed like the most interesting detail in their duet. Doug
