Why the Iraqis are in no hurry...

So many people, Republicans and Democrats (especially Hillary), blame the Iraqis for the failure to stand up a government and especially (in the case of Republicans) to pass the Oil "Revenue Sharing" law.

I think what we have is a case of deliberate passive-aggressive resistance.  Follow me below the flip for why.

We all know by now that the American-written oil law is basically a permission slip for our oil companies to rape Iraq. How ludicrous that after the entire war was undertaken just to get at that oil, we now need the permission of a bunch of Iraqi politicians to take possession.  Damn laws are such an inconvenience!

So, faced with the most outrageous case of extortion by force of arms perhaps in history, what do the Iraqis do?  They refuse to sign away their oil to the conquerors, but instead of open defiance which would cause the support from the invader that keeps them in power to be withdrawn, they hem and haw and dissemble in the hope that they can run out the clock, which in this case is ticking away with the erosion of support from the American public for this criminal venture.

So they go on vacation, for two months, and seem not the least bit perturbed, while Bu$hco fumes.  And what can Darth Cheney et al do?  They can't engage in "regime change", they already tried that, and if they do it again it will rip away the already shredded veneer of self-determination that has been so laboriously applied and almost certainly trigger an escalation in the insurgency that makes what we have seen so far look like kindergarten.

So we shall see--can the Iraqis keep from blinking in this game of chicken?  Will the Big Oil sock puppets in the White House panic as time runs out and abandon any semblance of supporting self-determination in Iraq?

Stay tuned.