Similarly, under current law, soldiers will answer not to Baghdad but to regional powerbrokers, while the Iraqi constitution guarantees local governments the right to pocket the revenue that flows from new oil fields within their jurisdiction. In fact, although the central government has the authority to collect the revenues generated by existing fields, there is no law to prevent local officials from modernizing old sites and claiming that they are new.
同样，根据现行法律，士兵不是对巴格达的政府负责，而是对地方的权力玩家负责，另外伊拉克的宪法还保障了地方政府保留辖区内新油田产生的收益的权利。实际上，尽管中央政府有权征收现有油田产生的收益，但是法律并不禁止地方官员将旧油田现代化，然后声称这些是新油田。