Don't listen to me, listen to him

That last post was....inadequate really. If you're reading this and you want to know more about this stuff please, please go to Greg Palast's website, I can't stress this strongly enough. He will explain it better and with wit. The neo-con plan to subvert OPEC by releasing Iraq's oil, the plan to privatise Iraq's economy, how these things lead eventually to a victory for OPEC and the Saudi regime and the fall of the neo-cons: its all on his site.
Aaargh.
I grasp all of these things to a certain degree. I'm not a politician or an economist. I'm a romantic soul...I lived in a complete fantasy world until the Iraq war kicked off and I was just cynical enough to think: why? No, why really? I have more of a feel for the global situation than a detailed understanding of it. I can tell you, for instance, what it sounds like. Yes. It sounds like the "rain down, rain down" bit of Paranoid Android by Radiohead.
How long ago was Iraq invaded? Three years and a bit? This has surely been a brief foray into reality for me. It's entirely possible that I may soon saunter out the other side and spend the rest of my life sitting under a tree with my guitar, singing songs about unicorns.
And so on.