Bush Sells His Soul for Foreign Oil. Oh! Wait!

Can you imagine the outrage should Bush, Cheney, or any member of the Bush administration be involved in a news report of this order?

Gerhard Schröder, the former German chancellor, will join the board of the Russian oil company TNK-BP as part of a peace deal between its co-owners, BP of Britain and a group of Russian billionaires

writes Reuters in the IHT.

A spokeswoman for TNK-BP said Schröder's popularity and connections in Russia made him a good hire.