there's a theory floating around that this is exactly what the israeli american faction of PNAC wants. the more chaos in iraq, the safer israel feels ---as long as the iraqis are fighting amongst themselves, they are no threat to israel.

the only thing israel needs is peace in the kurdish area, where 10 billion barrels of oil in kirkuk are being babysat by the mossad as israel supports the kurdish faction that is willing to send that oil to israel.

there's a lot of talk around about rebuilding the kirkuk/haifa pipeline, but the problem with that is that a lot of the pipe runs through syria, which explains a lot of the neocon agitation to get syria.

Efforts to Repair Iraq's Oil Facilities Founder
September 26, 2005
The deficiencies have deprived Iraq of hundreds of millions of dollars in potential revenue needed for national rebuilding efforts and kept millions of barrels of oil off the world market at a time of growing demand.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-oil26sep26,0,4211827.story?coll=la-story-footer& amp;track=morenews