Where's The Gratitude, Hunh?

Iraq is stopping Australian wheat imports. Or as one Iraqi official deliciously put it:

We have not decided to re-import from Australia.

Considering Australia just sent 400 MORE troops to Iraq, the decision will come as a surprise to many. So what's the problem with Australian wheat? Well, nothing it seems. It's just that US wheat is somehow better:

While Iraq liked some of the qualities of Australian wheat over US wheat, Iraq was investigating Australia's practices and that it would buy from Australia if it could not get wheat from other countries...

A few hours later:

Iraq wants to use about $US1 billion ($1.29 billion) in US reconstruction funds to buy American commodities, Khalil Assi, director general of the Grain Board of Iraq, told reporters during his first day of meetings in Washington.

Reconstruction funds going back into the US economy... who would have guessed, eh?