Dudes....

When Rumsfeld stated that "Iraqi oil belongs to Iraqi people" he was just inferring that the oil is a public resource. Just like our natural resources are publically owned as opposed to privately owned. It doesn't mean that "we the people" own the resource, but that the resource is managed by the government for the public good. As opposed to the resource being owned and managed wholly by a private entity whose intentions are principally profit and growth. I guess in the case of Iraq (B4 GW), the government not only managed the resource but essentially profited from it as well (big time). Not the case with our publically managed resources. WDFW is not a filthy rich agency (although some may argue that they're not managing the resource for the public good either--ah well, an argument for another thread). Rumsfeld was probably also making the point that we aren't going to take the oil for ourselves even though we ran over the country.