Revenge?

After the US supported Israel in the Yom Kippur war of 1973, the Arab petroleum exporting companies, including Iraq, instituted an embargo on oil shipments to the US. All of a sudden, Americans were waiting in long lines to pay for gas at much higher prices.


Well, guess who is waiting in lines now?

At gas stations around Baghdad, the line of cars waiting to fill their tanks with increasingly rare petrol now reaches 60 to 80 vehicles.

Some prefer to spend the night in their vehicles on streets to maintain their turn in the long line.

The nationwide fuel shortage is so severe that 20 litres now cost about $20.

That's about $3.78 a gallon--even more than we're paying. And they're waiting in long lines for it, in a country with some of the largest oil reserves in the world. We won!

More:

The problem is being further aggravated because residents need to obtain fuel for power generators amid electricity shortages in the capital and all around Iraq.

You wonder--perhaps the 27-year-old George W. Bush, driving home from the bar at 2:30 in the morning, found his favorite station closed because it was out of gas. He ran out of gas and had to stagger the rest of the way home. Now he finally has his revenge.

Makes more sense than any of the reasons he has actually given.