Whoops on Venezuela (originally published August 17, 2005)

Ok, so what I said before about viable options for oil outside of the middle east... well Seymore Hirsch says that Iran is in talks with Venezuella about oil. So maybe there goes that source too, uh oh.
PS on Seymore Hirsch; for anyone who didn't read his article a month or so ago in The New Yorker about the first Iraq elections, he found out how our government sent money and political "helpers" to aid the people we wanted to get elected. And for some reason Achmed Chalabi, the guy this administration wanted to run Iraq in the first place, even though he had all these money laundering crimes in his past and had lied to us before and was a major source of faulty info about WMD's in Saddam's Iraq, is now in charge of the oil ministry. He decides where, when, how and even why money from Iraqi oil goes. Hmmmm, how did he get elected to that position after getting voted out of any major office? We don't want to steal the oil, we just want access to buying it, but jeeez what a way to go about it!