Priorities

Over at dkos, McJoan notes that Admiral Fallon is taking Maliki to task for, you guessed it, the oil law. She quotes:

Both independent analysts and officials within Iraq's Oil Ministry anticipate that when all is said and done, the big winners in Iraq will be the Big Four -- the American firms Exxon Mobile and Chevron, the British BP Amoco and Royal Dutch Shell -- that dominate the world oil market. Ibrahim Mohammed, an industry consultant with close contacts in the Iraqi Oil Ministry, told the Associated Press that there's a universal belief among ministry staff that the major U.S. companies will win the lion's share of contracts.

There are no nations, there are no peoples. There is only Exxon Mobile and Chevron, Amoco and Shell. You people have meddled with the primal forces of nature and I won't have it! Is that clear?