The only reason for the continuing deployment of foreign troops in the war-torn country of Iraq is protecting Iraq's huge oil reserves. Iraq has the world's third largest oil reserves after Saudi Arabia and Iran, according to the BP statistical review of world energy 2007. War opponents argued long before hostilities began in March 2003 that the US administration's main interest in toppling Saddam was to loosen the grip of Saudi Arabia and the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) on global oil prices.
The Australian prime minister, John Howard, has stated "the reason we remain there is that we want to give the people of Iraq a possibility of embracing democracy".
So, the Iraqis embrace democracy whilst we embrace their oil.
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