Who's Your Daddy

Greg Palast says that the Bolton and Wolfowitz nominations are part of a neocon purge in the Bush administration. Why? Because they dared to tangle with Big Oil:

The neo-cons wanted to use our control of Iraq's oil to smash OPEC, to smash the power of what they see as an Arab-controlled monopoly and Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately, that also meant smashing $56-a-barrel oil prices, and the oil industry was deeply unhappy. . . . You have to understand that the real levers of power are not in these public jawboning jobs. The real levers of power are behind those closed walls. So Wolfowitz had his power. He now has to take his hands off the levers, and Bolton is now in a position where he is told what to say, and he is not a person setting policy. The neo-cons understand what's happening here, and they are screaming bloody murder. But they’re all being purged. This is a very big change in U.S. policy toward people like Negroponte, who are State Department establishment, oil-friendly, OPEC-friendly, Saudi-friendly.

Not to mention death-squad friendly. But hey, that's just a little more collateral damage, something you have to accept in order to accomplish the greater good of ensuring ongoing enormous profits for the oil companies. W, of course, was himself an oilman, though a failed one, as with all his other endeavors. He and Cheney were willing to use the neocons for a time, but their ultimate loyalties are clear. Neither one of them has any ideals; they are the political version of the Mafia. The neocons, deluded as they are, actually believe(d) what they were pushing.