Eleventh in series of blogs on the administration push to war.

 July: Geopolitics and domestic politics for the summer continue. U.S. companies continue to import Iraqi oil at the rate of 710,000 barrels per day in July 2001, for a total of 10.88 million barrels for the month, according to the Energy Information Administration as cited in International Petroleum Monthly, Sept. 2002. The heavy oil commerce with Iraq even draws attention in corporate media outlets, see below, but apparently does not call into question administration saber-rattling against Iraq. Meanwhile, the installation of PNAC signatories and other neocons in ...   more »