Now, even if they can't get the oil out of the ground or to the ship for another 10 years, they have prevented it from being sold to the Chinese and the EU, and hopefully things will have cooled off by the time using iraqi reserves is absolutely necessary. At worse, it ought to be possible to balkanize Iraq and cut a deal with the kurds for ~1/2 of the pie. Even if the entire thing was solely to supply the military over the next couple of decades, which neocon would say it wasn't worth it?
