This is absurd:

From Ha'aretz: (excerpts, emphasis added)

U.S. checking possibility of pumping oil from northern Iraq to Haifa, via Jordan
By Amiram Cohen

The United States has asked Israel to check the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq to the oil refineries in Haifa. The request came in a telegram last week from a senior Pentagon official to a top Foreign Ministry official in Jerusalem.

Who is that "senior Pentagon official"? Who ever it is, he (or she) has an incredibly tin ear. That's really going to stoke the conspiracy theory machine - to the detriment of the U.S. effort on the ground in Iraq.


posted by Quiddity at 8/25/2003 10:22:00 AM