Teribus - do you really think the insurgents would be blowing up the pipelines if they were owned by Iraqis? Not so. Iraqi oil production was meant to finance this war but alas production is down. Untapped reserves are being protected by the U.S. for export to Israel.

Before the war, it was France providing the construction of a pipeline that was meant to feed Europe. Now, nobody is benefitting because it is control of the pipelines and the infrastructure that are at stake. It doesn't matter how much oil is owned by Iraq if the distribution of that oil is controlled by others.

Thats why the insurgents are concentrating on distrupting the flow:

http://www.iags.org/iraqpipelinewatch.htm

...or how about this little tidbit:

http://www.gasandoil.com/ogel/samples/freearticles/roundup_02.htm

Finally, it seems that political considerations dominated the decision to open the northern oil fields of Kuwait to the international oil companies. Given the relative small size of this investment and the type of contracts between Kuwait and the oil companies, the impact of this investment on Kuwait and the world oil market is minimal. Kuwait would have developed those fields anyway even without the foreign investment as long as the world oil market warrants such development.

The success of the IOCs investment in the Kuwaiti northern fields requires a stable political environment, which necessitates an agreement with Iraq. Since it is difficult to foresee a credible agreement between the Kuwaiti government and the current Iraqi government, removal of Saddam Hussein may prove useful for the IOCs. Recent reports indicate that Kuwait may sign its first contracts with the IOCs early next year; I believe this will not happen if Saddam Hussein stays in power. Such contracts will be signed after the removal of Saddam Hussein, on the promise that a border agreement with the new Iraqi government could be reached soon after that. But the question remains, will Kuwait offer the northern fields to the IOCs once Iraq is no longer a threat?

No, teribus, this is not a comic strip.

Please list for me the number of companies involved in the transport of Iraqi gas and oil and then tell me it is Iraq controlling the flow.

Belittling me is not going to change the facts. It only makes you look very desperate to convince others that you are some kind of authority. This information is available to anyone who wants to know. You are not the ultimate source. In fact, most of your posts are intended to mislead the reader. If you don't work for the U.S. govt. you must work for the IOC's. Why else would you work so hard to deceive?