The businessman born in Mosul related to the Saudi royal family (good family friends and business partners of the Bush family) and recently Vice President of Hicap Technology Co. has now been appointed to become the president of Iraq.

Well, this shouldn't have surprised anyone seeing that a former Unocal Advisor was appointed to be president in Afghanistan.

I'm starting to wonder who the true world leaders are...The US...or the house of Saud? Someone is very desperate for some cheap oil.....

also see: Carlos Castillo Arma (Guatemala), Manuel Noriega (Panama) and Augusto Pinochet (Chili).

I was aware that the official US stand was the it did not support the choice, but the way Bush, Paul Bremer and others in the US administration kept saying it over and over and over again seemed a little bit too fishy to me...It was like they were for some reason trying their very best to make it clear that he was not their choice; it was the councils choice. As if to say "look, they're making their own decisions. We have no say what so ever in this"....That kinda made it smell much like BS to me....All of this was planned way before 9/11. I doubt they'd let some council get in their way.

I did a bit of research myself about this guy (nothing more than a Google search) and came upon this article:

http://www.rnw.nl/hotspots/html/irq040601.html

It seems that the US did not actually want him to be chosen. To be taken with a grain of salt, of course!

What you can do for your country? Stop wasting so much energy so you don't have to kill people and the rest of the damn world can breath again *cough* *cough*. Allergies and asma are a bitch....

We complain about prices at the pump, we buy the latest SUVs at a feverish pace, we want cheaper goods in our discount stores, we want cheaper pharmaceuticals, we take the car when we can walk, we drive solo in the commuter lane and then we say "No blood for oil!" Blaming the Saudis for our oil woes is like blaming the Colombian cartels for our demand for drugs or blaming McDonalds for our obesity My fellow Americans: ask not what G Dubya can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. :-)