Why were the Australian wheat companies so special?

That they were told ONE YEAR before the American citizens that we would be attacking Iraq?

Update 11/26:
But don't let your friends get between you and the almighty dollar:

"THE United States intervened to sabotage a huge wheat contract agreed upon by AWB and Iraq during a series of secret meetings in Cairo last year, less than two years after Australia joined America to topple Saddam Hussein.

Senior US officials in Baghdad complained to Iraqi Government ministers in January last year - 10 months before the United Nations exposed AWB's kickbacks to Saddam Hussein - after learning Australia had landed a $900 million wheat deal with Iraq."