"With this decision we want to sound the alarm and raise the nation's voice to remind all those who forget that God is great. Accursed be the lowly." So stated Saddam Hussein last Monday in a televised speech announcing a one-month embargo of Iraqi oil exports as a symbolic gesture in support of the "heroes, mujahedin, strugglers and heroines" of Palestine. News of the Iraqi oil embargo was greeted by world oil markets with a collective shrug. Crude oil prices fell Tuesday as much as 2 percent after rising slightly Monday in wake of the announcement. Saddam said that...