Wow Freda! This is what needs to be known. Its for this kind of information that I belong to mudcat. Thanks so much.

I knew Iraq was all about the oil but this says it all.

"Chalabi, the London-based leader of the Iraqi National Congress, is front man for the latest incarnation of a long-time neo-conservative strategy to redraw the map of the oil-rich Middle East, put American troops - and American oil companies - in full control of the Persian Gulf's reserves and use the Gulf as a fulcrum for enhancing America's global strategic hegemony."

Thanks again.