Don't you have a sense that Cheney and his oil company / energy policy planning buddies read the news our of Iraq and are all patting themselves on the back, saying, "The plan worked just as we thought it would."
Hey, speaking about Iraq, the other day I mentioned a book I read and liked about Iraq (The Mesopotamia Mess) and the morass the Brits found themselves in after their invasion in 1914. Andrew Sullivan at the Atlantic Monthly had a good comment about it too.
http://andrewsullivan.theat
lantic.com/the_daily_dish/2
008/02/blast-from-the.html