Baker vs Neocons in pursuit of Iraq's oil

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Antonia Juhasz writes in Alternet about the Iraq Study Group's report:

"The report calls for the United States to assist in privatizing Iraq's national oil industry, opening Iraq to private foreign oil and energy companies, providing direct technical assistance for the 'drafting' of a new national oil law for Iraq, and assuring that all of Iraq's oil revenues accrue to the central government."

So, Baker's calling for a realpolitik way of dealing with the crisis, including letting Iran have its pound of nuclear flesh -- which Ahmadinejad will surely extract -- while the neocons fret and fume, wanting to persist in their muscular militaristic (and failing) solutions.

But, mind you, both their goals are the same: the privatization of Iraq's oil assets and allowing for military presence in the middle east. With peak oil round the corner, and the world's 2nd largest oil reserve languishing, there's much money to be made if only...

It sure seems that the power-brokers are losing patience with GW, and sending Baker in to straighten him out seems like the last step before something more dramatic. Wonder if impeachment is imminent. Signs in the media should reveal more.