In case you haven't noticed, oil is the Iraqi economy, yet a recent GAO report stated an additional $57 billion in US tax dollars will be needed to bring oil and electricity production to the level where it can satisfy Iraq's domestic demand by the year 2015.
Don't worry , when the Iranians stand up America can stand down .
New power stations , new power lines , connection to the Iranian national grid , and you know for some strange reason these Iran/Iraq development projects don't seem to be targetted by the insurgents .
Two new oil pipelines in the offing too .
Projections of Iranian non-electric/oil trade exports growing to 10 billion a year ...dinnerjacket says thankyou George .