Which is why the US wants permanent bases in the ME. They could live with a set up like in S.A. so long as the government(s) in Iraq were aligned with the US--holding dollars, selling oil the multilateral way, allowing American interests to make profits , etc.
As I said before, there is hardly anything new in the ISG info. here that wasn't already put forward before by the occupation. It is an issue that was discussed by the new rulers of Iraq, for sure (that is, keep it nationalized, or privatize, and if so, to what extent, and if so, who is going to pay for all the repairs necessary, etc.) CJ
