One of her first assignments is to see Iraq through their move toward elections in January. Understand Condi and Bush would love nothing more than to see Iraq liberated, from trading oil with foreign currency that is. You see, all WMD-bs aside, what Bush really wants is a puppet government that will permanently revert Iraq to using the dollar. As of 1/1/02 the dollar has it's first serious competitor since WWII. 12-15 European nations dumped their currency in order to completely embrace the euro, with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), N. Korea, Iran, and Russia threatening to do likewise. Back then Saddam was still in power, he made the euro his only WMD on that aforementioned date making Iraq a key player in world economy, but having long since gotten rid of his chemical and biological weapons, he was militarily the weakest of the new euro-spending nations, and therefore subject to being considered an example before the rest of the world theater, and taught a lesson. The new Cold War is the US dollar vs the euro, oil-though still crucially important-has virtually been reduced to a subplot, and will remain a subplot as long as the dollar continues to fall.