[RightWhale]

They will charge the Iraqis for the U.S. cost of operating in Iraq.

The plan should be scuttled. It is a world-class bad idea.

[Samurai_Jack]

The Iraqi Oil should be sold BY IRAQIS and the money from the sales should be funneled BY US FORCES (not the UN or anyone else) back into the Iraqi economy where it will fund its own 'marshall plan'. The determining indicator of an iraqi government ready for independent operation would be the sincere desire of the THANKFUL new iraqi leadership to REPAY the US for having pulled their sorry butts out of a repressive Fascist Authoritarian Dictatorship. Until that time they are still living in the fog of islamic denial.