Irisher,I was kidding, and I totally agree with your comments. After spending that much money and lives in taking and holding Iraq there is no way this deal was not going to be on offer to the U.S.
The trouble with the U.S. is exactly the German/Japanese situation after ww2, they honestly believed that Iraq and other middle-eastern countries would embrace western style democracy ala Germany et al after ww2.
And yes there is no way this is about keeping oil prices down, I do think it is about oil but in its own special way. There is a hypothesis that the already weak dollar would collapse if countries started selling their oil in Euros, I might be cynical but it strikes me as one reason for the U.S. wanting regime change, when Saddam started selling his oil in Euros. Incidentaly nearly two years ago Iran stated it wanted to sell its oil in Euros. |