Turns out Iraq is #2 behind SA in proven reserves. Back in the intitial invasion, we asked many countries to write off loans made to Saddam. I’m guessing the biggest writer-offers have the best shots at investment. As it should be.
Wait a minute these so call investors were investing in defiance of a UN resolution that made it supposedly illegal to assist Saddam in rebuilding his military and funding those homicide bomber's families. How now after our own blood and treasure can it be or should be these that were willing to break an agreed resolution get first pick at profitable oil contracts. That newly Iraqi government is not obligated to these that assisted Saddam's own terroristic, rape chambers, or wholesale slaughter of any and all who gave him the wrong look. I thought this whole thing was NOT to be about blood for oil.