Anti-war protestors plead their case with the slogans "No Blood for Oil," and "Not In Our Name."
Well, blood has sadly been spilled but it hasn't been for oil. The unanimous U.N. Security Council resolution passed yesterday hands control over Iraq's oil revenue (which goes into the Development Fund for Iraq) to the new Iraqi Interim Government. Section 24 of the resolution declares that
[U]pon dissolution of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the funds in the Development Fund for Iraq shall be disbursed solely at the direction of the Government of Iraq...
It is Iraq's liberation, not its plunder, that Coalition troops have wrought. A liberation won "not in the name" of anti-war protestors.
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