Perhaps the Iraqis and their former oil minister and a leading member of the Iraqi National Alliance, Ibrahim Bahr al-Uluom, read this blog. The plan he outlined in the Wall Street Journal a couple of days ago is very close to what this blog recommended for Mexico's national petroleum industry last year.
See:
http://www.hhcapitalism.com/2008_07_01_archive.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704304504574610661109079836.html