Each time the shieks meet in Vienna and decide on production quotas, billions of dollars flow out of the coffers of petroleum using countries, that is, until the inevitable "leaks" by one country or other, and the price stabilizes again. The damage to the market however, is not limited to that provided by quotas. The uncertainty inserted into the market by OPEC's shenanigans severely impairs the inflow of risk capital and causes the futures markets to underserve entry into the market at every level of distribution; extraction, shipping, storage, refining, and wholesale and retail activities are all affected adversely.
Owing to the sanctions and outdated extraction technology, in recent years Iraq has been pumping only about 30% of what it could be pumping. As these obstacles are removed and OPEC's meetings become void of effect, a degree of certainty will return to the world petroleum market, and the effect on its capital structures will cause the price at the pump to plunge to real levels not seen in decades. The world economies will become fuel injected and the world's largest petroleum user will experience the turbocharging of its economic engine, a fitting consequence to all of this since it was our economy which was attacked to start this whole sequence of events.
Now that the US military is building the largest military base since Vietnam in Kosovo (Camp Bondsteel)(while closing bases in the USA) to protect the OIL that will supply Europe and West Communists states and the military will ring Afghanistan with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of border security to protect the pipelines across Afghanistan, the choke you allude to of OPEC seems to be all about OIL and Money and the threat of the Euro becoming the base of exchange.
Why didn't the Willing Coalition just say that ? Why all the talk of Iraq Freedom, WMD and all that ?