[Marine_Uncle]

I would have to support your prophecy on the oil output issue. One of these days soon we shall start reading more about the large reserves under al Anbar provincial land. Once they get things normalized and start drilling oil from the north, south, and al Anbar they could even top your predictions.
And I bet some of the libs really do understand the consequences of this.

[jveritas]

I think if they upgrade their current oil infrastructures, the Iraqis can produce 5 millions barrels a day without the need for new drilling but for sure they need to drill for more oil in particular in the Western Desert (Anbar province) where new studies say that there is a huge reserve of oil there.