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.
Correct you are! In any petro-political situation you can see, in the aftermath, the (before the laywers showed up) and the (after the lawyers showed up).