I think that the middle east is more complicated then blood for oil (though looking at the connections b/w Rose, Unicol and Haliburton might help), i think it is also about our God versus There God, and what looks good on television and opedial conflict and one nasty motherfucker who likes to kill lots and lots of Kurds.

But UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Jan Egeland
has a v. good point when she notes for sheer number of bodies and the ability to make an area unstable, Uganda has iraq beat.