Monday, May 07, 2007

Saddam signed his own death warrant

When he decided to shift from the U.S. dollar to the Euro when selling his oil.


(via whig at Cannablog)

We went to war for control of oil and to stay the sole superpower. But we already knew that.....

Update 5/8: Via Sorghum Crow, this video of Robert Newman and his hilarious yet stunning History of Oil:

4 comments:

Sorghum Crow said...

Here is a link to Robert Newman's History of Oil. It is absolutely amazing account and darn funny to boot.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7374585792978336967

He brings up the dollar to euro shift as well.

ellroon said...

Wow!! As soon as I'm finished typing my daughter's chemistry, I'm posting this one. Really great, thanks!

Sorghum Crow said...

Typing your daugther's chemistry? I hereby nominate you for pre-mortem sainthood.

ellroon said...

What makes it hard is that I've never taken chemistry, although my husband taught it. So the formulas with the superscript and subscript and the capital letters... is a foreign language.

You'd think I'd have learned something, this is my fourth kid through high school!