One morning a few weeks ago, I flipped on C-Span to hear Dennis Kucinich speak about U.S. efforts to privatize Iraqi oil via the Iraq Hydrocarbon Bill (now one of the benchmarks we are demanding of the Iraqi government.)
His talk was carefully researched and crafted, harrowing in scope and specifics, named a vast assortment of sources, facts, numbers, dollars - and pointed fingers.
The speech received no mainstream media coverage, even though Dennis invoked a rarely used House rule of personal privilege to gain an entire hour of time on the House floor, for the specific purpose of discussing White House and Congressional complicity in efforts to privatize Iraqi oil.