[rmnunez]

Those oil import figures are more or less what I figured they'd be, Iraq now provides about a fifteenth of the oil the US imports. This is more or less what it was like 5 years ago when they came in at about 7%. But there is that unrealized potential, Iraq could pump much more and perhaps the US would buy it, though I doubt they'd be getting any of it for a penny less than whatever they'd be getting from anyone else. This is why I don't buy "oil greed" as the reason for intervention.