IN OTHER WORDS, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT WAS A WAR FOR OIL OR FOR DEMOCRACY...:

Big Oil Ready for Big Gamble in Iraq (GINA CHON, 6/24/09, WSJ)

Next week, Iraqi officials plan a welcome-back party for Big Oil.

The government intends to auction off oil contracts to foreign companies for the first time since Iraq nationalized its oil industry more than three decades ago. If all goes according to plan in the first round, foreign oil companies will move in to help Iraq revive production at six developed fields that have suffered from years of war and neglect.

...we won. Thanks, W.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 24, 2009 8:05 AM