Damn, Chris beat me to it...or at least something along the lines of it. Let's say we just boycott Iraq and it's oil, right? That's what we want, right? Now, what do you think that's going to do to the country? What are they going to export, sand? Their economy will go to the shitz => death of women and children from starvation. They need to sell oil as much as we need to buy it. Look, if we wanted oil, we could just open up a hole in the north and get it ourselves. To hell with Iraq. But what comes after it? A country that doesn't have anything to export will start doing nasty stuff. Just look at North Korea.