The British didn't think to buy off the nobels with oil royalties...
Times have changed a lot since the Ottomans and the British attempted to rob Iraq.
The Tribal leaders will love the US. As it stands now, all the oil money flows to Sadam. Soon that will change, and the oil money will flow to the tribal leaders who play ball the Democratic way.
Scott (Of course they WILL hate the US if you buy into Bowser's logic that all the oil revenues will flow to Haliburton...But anyone who buys into that one just doesn't have a grounding in reality...Haliburton will only get 50% of the oil money) ;^P