My point still remains. As of the latest reports, Iraq has the second largest known oil reserves and Saudi Arabia is number one. Other than your post, I have not found anything that contradicts this. It's partly a matter of who has the oil, but it's mostly about who controls it. Control of that much oil is geopolitical power, and that's what the Bush administration is really after. It's what this war was all about. If it turns out that Russia does indeed have the world's largest oil reserves (speculation at this point), then that may put a temporary crimp in the Bush administration's program, but if you know this for sure, I'm sure the Bush administration does too, and they undoubtedly have a contingency plan. Right now, however, Russia's oil reserves are in the realm of counting the proverbial unhatched chickens, and lots of people have gone bust drilling for oil they were sure was there, but ended up with a bunch of dry holes. That's the rule rather than the exception. Ask any oil man. Ask Bush.
But this, as I mentioned above, is a side-issue and a diversion from the matter under discussion. If anyone wants to discuss oil reserves, they should start another thread.