From one lengthy piece covering the US re-structuring plan for Iraq.
Lemme count the instances of the word 'oil' versus the word 'food'...

Re-structuring... oil companies... UN oil for food will fund reconstruction... control over oil assets... oil industry... quell civil disorder and also overcome wide suspicion that it intends to occupy Iraq... [but then] Wolfowitz explained it, in the first phase of US _occupation_, Iraq will be... former head of Shell Oil... oversee oil industry... [former] lobby... Halliburton... Fluor... [now] Fluor has been invited to bid... international oil companies should take a role in restructuring Iraq's oil industry...

errrrrrr.... nevermind... I tried another one, but it didn't have 'food' or 'health' or 'aid' in it at all. This one at least had 'food for oil'.

In other news, Israel has told Palestine that it should look what the US did to make Iraq free and that Palestine should therefore look for non-violent means to secure its own independence. Does anyone else but me see the bizarre irony in this???
Israel: 'The US used force, killed a few thousand Iraqis and flattened some ancient cities to 'free the Iraqi people'. But if _you_ want to be free you should not use force.'
Of course, the real implication behind the message is that the US is on Israel's side and 'might be coaxed into bombing your ass, too', but the message itself is incredibly ridiculous, even surreal if you think about it too long. It's like that Star Trek episode with the computer... 'force equals freedom, but no force must be used to gain freedom, but force gains freedom, but... *boom*'. With George stating he'll now go on to work on the Israeli/Palestinian problem next, the Palestinians have to be a bit concerned he might do just that.

When does little Nero start slaughtering any potential successors (and his mom and wife...)? Is it after settling the Judean dispute over Caesarea or before? Hmmm... I should look that up...