No mention of the details of the oil law?

Charles Adler posed the question, but it would have been nice to provide the listeners with an answer that really shines the light on the major problem in this whole affair. The oil law, as it is currently drafted, will provide a ridiculously unfair share of the profits to multi-national oil companies? Essentially robbing the Iraqis of their resources.

Info here: http://www.iraqoillaw.com/

Iraqis have rejected the oil law thus far because of just such a perception. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on one's perspective, multi-national companies are the entities that have the expertise to efficiently tap the country's oil resources, especially given Iraq's decaying infrastructure and (newly) unskilled population.

Thus, simple templates about rapacious corporations, like at the web site you recommend, can be overstated. Nationalized oil isn't some panacea, though it's worth examining what % of profits go to corporations, as well as any sunset laws are built into proposed legislation.

As far as, "it would be nice if I would have mentioned it," I'm not an expert on the issue, so I can only authoritatively speak to how resources from the national government affect the political and security situation in the Anbar Province.