Politics: The Plan

I have friends who I routinely spar with over how much of the Bush administration's evil is part of a huge evil plan, and how much is just evil people doing what comes naturally. (Yes, this is what we talk about. Directed evil vs. Random Evil.) But this item from Saturday's Washington Post was uniformly met with a chorus of voices agreeing with me that this evil is part of a big ol' evil plan. Here's the rub:

The U.S. executive selected by the Pentagon to advise Iraq's Ministry of Oil suggested today that the country might best be served by exporting as much oil as it can and disregarding quotas set by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. His comments offered the strongest indication to date that the future Iraqi government may break ranks with the international petroleum cartel.

That's right, breaking Iraq out of OPEC would be the first step towards OPEC's demise. It's common knowledge that some OPEC countries who aren't as rich as the Saudi royal family would like to pump and sell more oil than they are allowed under the OPEC quotas, because they want to get rich rich rich. So if Iraq breaks the quotas (essentially ending the nation's relationship with OPEC), then who's to say Algeria, Nigeria or Indonesia can't break the quotas?

Then we've got all the oil getting pumped and sold. And you know who buys and resells all that delicious crude oil, don't you? I think W and Dick do.