If this is even partly true, the U.S., Bush, Britain, and our entire Iraq venture is ruined. Reads like it's true but I'd have to see this somewhere else before I'd believe it all. Whoopsie----Google is linking the same story HERE. And here too. Bare bones story is that Iraq has given up almost 200 billion in profits to foreign oil companies. The White House once again sits on its dumb ass instead of answering this stuff, assuming it IS answerable. The charge that this war was all about oil gains traction by the nanosecond. Bush popularity could be in the teens by week's end.

Late Add: story is now in at least fifty papers world wide plus Reuters (natch), and not one denial. Shhhhhhh don't wake Bush,,,,

The Anchoress hits the massive Arab rally story, one that not a single MSM source is reporting. If twenty Lefties show up at Crawford it makes every newscast. If 200,000 Arabs show up to protest terrorism the media INCLUDING FOX, sleeps....