Gadhafi Killed in Libyan Hometown

Good!  Hopefully, they (Total, Eni) get the oil much cheaper and we won't have to deal with a pesky French and/or Italian bankruptcy.

Country for sale.

Can I just buy the oil? Someone else can develop the beaches, or whatever . . . 

Unfortunately we can't, but a lot of others will conveniently be getting it much cheaper, and with less pesky "hassles" than before:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

No worries about dead men telling tales either.

I think you're exactly right about "dead men" and telling tales - I suspect that a whole bunch of politicians are much less tense this morning than they have been for the last few weeks.  From Tony Blair to members of the GW Bush administration and senators Lieberman, McCain and Graham all knew they were doing deals with a brutal psycho for the sake of keeping the oil flowing.  I'm sure that the Colonel would have squealed some amazing stories (with plenty of lies but also plenty of facts) about his negotiations with western leaders.

But regarding US companies and Libyan oil contracts - while technically the foreign military intervention was a NATO action to defend civilians, I think the actions were widely seen as "US military intervention to benefit the revolutionaries."  That may help give (nominally) US-based oil companies a leg up.

"We voted for our brother, Barack, a beautiful human being with a sweet heart, and now he's an assassin." - Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan

do you think his last words were similar to:

Moammar Gadhafi:
Oh, my God, they found me, I don't know how, but they found me. Run for it Marty.

Marty McFly:
Who? Who?

Moammar Gadhafi:
Who do you think? The Libyans!

Marty McFly:
Holy shit!