You're right teribus, I am not an expert on the oil industry and my use of the phrase "oil baron" is only used to reflect those captains of industry that make huge profits from extracting and transporting oil. Some would refer to these oil barons as neo-cons.

I will choose to believe the following statement rather than any convulted explanation you have to offer. You have no interest in protecting the rights of the Iraqi people.

"We think the proposed oil law doesn't serve the interests of the Iraqi people at all," said Faleh Abood Umara, general secretary of the Southern Oil Company Union and the Iraqi Federation of Oil Workers' Unions, at a news conference in New York on June 18. "It emphasizes or confirms American hegemony over Iraqi oil fields."