<<I'm telling you is going to lead to China and Russia, being our Buddies.>>>
And like I said last year.
I still don't trust Russia(or China)
As far as I can spit.
RESPONSE #1; Auggie, sometime you might want to sit down with you Dad who is SO smart an SO rich, and just ask him how he got that way. AND...IF he is honest he will tell you it's because he knew how everbody else was cheating.
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Acknoldgement:
ok
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RESPONSE #2; Russia Sees U.S. As New Market For Oil Reserves
Deals Could Ease Washington's Reliance On Mideast, Create Windfall for Moscow
By Peter Baker
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, September 8, 2002; Page A25 By Peter Baker
Washington Post Foreign Service
MOSCOW -- In their hour of need, as the Nazis were marching on Moscow during World War II, desperate Russians received a lifeline from the United States in the form of supply convoys sailing into the Arctic port of Murmansk. Now some six decades later, Russia wants to turn the ships around.
To help the United States in its war on terrorism, Russia may build a deep-water port at Murmansk where it could load up supertankers with plentiful Russian oil and ship it to America. The United States would be less vulnerable to disruptions in the oil supply from the Middle East, and Russia's oil barons would have a massive new market to cultivate.
A year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks redefined U.S.-Russian relations, President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin are working to turn their new friendship into a tangible new partnership between the world's largest energy consumer and the steward of one of the world's largest energy reserves. Ignoring skeptics, Bush and Putin signed an energy cooperation agreement at their May summit in Moscow and plan to convene an oil and gas conference in Houston Oct. 1-2.
If they succeed, the partnership could be among the most far-reaching changes to the international order in the aftermath of Sept. 11.
For the first time, Russia would provide significant economic goods to the United States, no longer playing the role of financial supplicant as it has since the demise of the Soviet Union. Closer energy ties would also further diminish U.S. dependence on oil from the Middle East and give Bush flexibility in confronting Iraq.
"The United States wants to be prepared for some kind of disruption," said Konstantin Reznikov, the senior oil analyst at Alfa Bank here in Moscow. "The relationship between the United States and the Middle East -- and Saudi Arabia in particular -- deteriorated after the September 11 events, so now they're targeting to get more crude oil from other regions."
Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham echoed that view during a recent visit here to promote cooperation. "Russia will play a pivotal role in ensuring global energy security," he said, adding that "the more diverse the sources of energy are, the less likely it is that disruption on one part of the planet will interrupt supplies."
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Proof....9/19/2002 $3Bln Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline Gets Under Way
By Aida Sultanova
The Associated Press
Aida Sultanova / AP
From left to right, U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, Azeri President Heidar Aliyev and Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer launching the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline's construction on Wednesday.
SANGACHAL, Azerbaijan -- U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham joined the presidents of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey on Wednesday for what he called "one of the most important energy undertakings" -- the start of construction of the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline.
The pipeline from Azerbaijan's Sangachal terminal, 40 kilometers south of the capital Baku to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, has been under discussion for eight years. When completed, it is expected to reduce dependence on Persian Gulf exporters and Russian pipelines.
Abraham, Azeri President Heidar Aliyev, Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer and Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, whose territory the pipeline will cross, participated in Wednesday's groundbreaking ceremony.
"This project guarantees peace, security and stability in the region and still further unites three countries and three peoples," Aliyev said at the opening ceremony.
The 1,760-kilometer pipeline, which will be operated by BP, will carry Caspian energy resources -- the world's third largest -- to a Turkish port en route to Western markets.
It has won strong support from the United States, which is eager to find a more stable energy source outside the sway of the Middle East. Aliyev said Wednesday that U.S. help in championing the pipeline had been crucial.
"This project is one of the most important energy undertakings from America's point of view, as well as for this region," Abraham said Tuesday at a meeting with Aliyev.
Reading a letter from U.S. President George W. Bush, Abraham said during Wednesday's ceremony that the project would increase the world's energy security and strengthen the sovereignty and independence of the nations involved.
"Although it will be some time before the first barrel of oil flows through this pipeline, it has already made a significant contribution to the future of this region," Bush said in the letter.
Abraham said the project could serve as a model for further endeavors, adding that it opened the door to investment in this impoverished region.
Construction of the pipeline, estimated to cost about $3 billion, is to be completed by early 2004, and the first oil is expected to flow through it a year later.
Experts expect about 349 million to 421 million barrels of oil to move through the pipeline every year.
moscowtimes.ru
Spencer Abraham
George W. Bush's secretary of Energy
As a senator from Michigan, Abraham on three occasions proposed eliminating the department he is now slated to head, saying it had "no core mission." Energy was not the only department on his hit list; he also suggested the Commerce Department be eliminated. He served one term as a senator, and was defeated in the November elections. Abraham served as co-chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee from 1990 to 1992 and briefly as the deputy chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle.
infoplease.com
Like I don't know, I'm stupid, I put my ears on the ground, and I don't miss diddly.
And I'll add this the whole deal behind Iraq is to install a democratic republic in the midst of autocrats, and then collapse the entire autocrate rule of the muslim world like a house of cards. It's caculated, and it will work, FREEDOM IS POWER. Like a house of cards they all go down.
It's like a game of Chess or Risk....but I too know how this ends, we win. So War it out in futility. |
