Blood and oil:

How the West will profit from Iraq's most precious commodity:

The 'IoS' today reveals a draft for a new law that would give Western oil
companies a massive share in the third largest reserves in the world. To
the victors, the oil? That is how some experts view this unprecedented arrangement
with a major Middle East oil producer that guarantees investors huge profits
for the next 30 years
Published: 07 January 2007

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2132574.ece

Now compare that with Jeremiah 51:7-9 (King James Version)
 

 7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth
drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are
mad.

 8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for
her pain, if so be she may be healed.

 9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and
let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto
heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
 

Len