Now how ’bout this: a country with a brutal president, nominally democratically elected (uh-huh, with 97.1% of the votes), that has a lot of oil. The USA severed relations with this country several years ago but now we’re back in bed with them. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Equatorial Guinea! Good thing they aren’t trying to hide weapons from us, because that would be bad, er, EVIL.
The irony is worse in light of the President's speach concerning the Middle east. No, we don't care about oil more than human rights and democracy. Well, except here and here.
We're doing something similar in the caspians. You could do the same post about Azerbijan or Uzbekistan. I would if I had the time.
