I'm beginning to feel like a one man band here, so don't be offended if I don't reply much after this.

The oil fields where secured early because it was thought they would be set afire. The Kuwait remains an ecological disaster from the last time the Iraqi's did that and it is true that they would have been a major problem to get under control, something fairly relevant to the original topic of this thread. I wasn't aware that much had gone into repairing the oil fields yet; production's still a trickle. It's going to take years to get them anywhere near full production. Iraqi refineries are only useful for meeting Iraqi needs, as their refined product would never be put on the world market except to Jordon. If they've made any repairs, it's to provide for local consumption.

Didn't water distribution break down in Baghdad when the Iraqi's sabotaged their own electical production? The cities had to be completely under control before anything could be done about that. Electrical production and water distribution are still being sabotaged at least in part out of resentment for that fact that they're being distributed more equitably, beyond the privileged areas Ba'ath party members lived in. Coalition forces did distribute water where they could during the war but that was subject to their logisitical supply lines and combat. They bypassed most towns and cities. So long as they were under Iraqi control, there wasn't much change of getting water to the general population. What could anyone have done about that?

I admit the looting shouldn't have been that much of a surprise. There was significant looting when the Allies fought through France and Germany. They couldn't really control they looting in Europe when they declared marshal law and were shooting looters. Despite the carnage, the militar was making a concerted effort not to shoot civilians, at least not until it became hard to tell the combatants from civilians. Not a surprise perhaps, but difficult to control.