Leave it to Russia to come in after the worst of the Iraq debacle, make nice with the current administration, and thus become inexorably tied to the infrastructure in the eventually stable, by current standards anyway, country.
Forgiving billions of Saddam's past military expenditures (why the "new" Iraq would be held accountable is beyond me), Russia now stands poised, via their state controlled petroleum giant, Lukoil, to cash in on the "liberation" of Iraq's vast oil reserves.
But wait, wasn't that part of the, albeit unsaid, deal for the U.S.? Weren't we--oops, I mean American oil companies--supposed to reap the benefits of the new "open" market in Iraq? (At least that's what a good deal of the oh so artistic signs at every anti-war rally have suggested; i.e., "No Blood for Oil" and "Lick my Bush"...OK, maybe not the latter.) We footed the bill and now comrade Putin, after being against America's involvement in Iraq every step of the way, comes in to lock up yet another country in the regions oil game.
Well played, Putin, well played.
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