yeah that's right, i'm jealous...i wish my government doubled our national debt and opened a torture chamber in a concentration camp on foreign soil and kickstarted a global economic crisis...canada SUCKS!

going back to the puppet status:
the us state department opened iraq's oil to international no-bid contracts:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/wo...0contract.html

the $3 billion contract with china is a drop in the bucket that western oil corporations will get, and is equal to less than 1% of the crap the usa imports from china...but that's got almost nothing to do with the oil motive behind the invasion of iraq

before the invasion, iraq got permission from the UN to sell it's oil in euros...now that the usa is in charge, all iraq's oil is sold in US dollars including the oil to china...control of iraq's oil is more important to US national security than who gets the oil because the US dollar might crash along with the US economy if the world's second largest reserves of crude oil suddenly started selling in euros:
CNN.com - U.N. to let Iraq sell oil for euros, not dollars - October 30, 2000

guess who else recently stopped selling oil in US dollars? IRAN!
Iran Ends Oil Transactions In U.S. Dollars, OPEC's Second-Largest Producer Now Pegs Petroleum To Euros And Yen - CBS News

when iraq starts selling its oil in euros, i might believe they are independent of the usa