Hey, guess who's got the contract to put out some of the oil fires in southern Iraq?

Yes, it's a division of Halliburton.

You know, the company that Dick Cheney used to work for?

Meanwhile, Bush wants to set up a solely American governor after Iraq is conquered, rather than a UN administration. Why's that, I wonder?

Blair's talking to him today to try and persuade him to bring the UN into it. Maybe he'll use the obvious argument: 'Because otherwise the war will go down in history as an American invasion to steal oil, not a liberation for the sake of democracy. That makes you little more than a robber, Bush, are you really that much of a fucking moron?'

Oops, stupid question.