Total's next designated CEO under investigation

As Iraq seems to disintegrate into civil war, this blog, written by a one-time career oilman, cannot ignore this apparently disconnected news item from the IHT , linked here. How different things in Iraq, the Middle East and for Western energy security might now be had France, Russia and Germany also worked for a post-invasion, peaceable solution for the warring factions of Iraq. At least the reasons for French reluctance are now apparently to become clearer. Russia's Putin meeting the EU leaders in Finland with energy security on the agenda (under strong-arm pressure as the EU states have left themselves no trump cards) brings this home even more forcibly! At least Blair has consequently realised the urgent necessity to go nuclear.