They dug up a US administration document from '99 that said
"energy security [US imports 60% of it's oil] should be at the center of _foreign policy_".
They then went an talked to quite a few oil exploration outfits, and came up with a figure of 2010-2025 at which point oil supply will outstrip domand, because most oil fields are now in decline.
The North Sea, for instance, is about to go off a cliff. Currently the UK is self sufficent for oil. By 2010 we'll need to import 75% of it.
Iraq could add another 4 years to those world wide figures.
Then then interviewed somone who was fairly high up in that London summit a few months ago to discuss how to re-form an Iraq government. He said that people who helped them in their cause of acquiruing power (UK,US) would get preferential treatment when it came to negotaing on
exploration rights, post-war.

Fairly scary stuff.
Leaving aside this being maybe the first of the 'Oil Wars', and it all going a bit Mad Max, there is still the problem of running out of oil ~2020. Goodbye private cars for the masses, cheap international travel. Time to move to a knowledge based economy.
Of course, we could fill the gap left by oil in power stations with coal (just delaying the problem), or nuclear (but they take ~15 years to build, which cuts it fine) or renewables (but noone seems very intrested in that).

If the AA systems are still going, will they want to fly a B52 over them ?
Maybe their just being used as cruise missle platforms, with an internal load for targets of oppitunity.

Nothing brings home the power and beauty of the internet more than sitting here in Kendal, watching and hearing a B52 bombing run on Baghdad, in real time.

Scary, but at the same time impressive.

So, it's war then.

Waste away those small hours in front of News 24 with this handy list of war songs...

Sometimes it is a pain having a grapevine and knowing what's going on, rather than just ploding along in blessful ignorence :-(

And to cap things off, if the UK even bothers getting a UN resolution for war, it'll be a horriable compramise one that doesn't allow anything anyway.
Leaders have been replaced for much less than doing something 70% of the country is against.