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To: Duane L. Olson who wrote (65529)	1/12/2003 11:59:40 AM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (4) of 281500

Hmmmmm... Wouldn't this "Tap the Oil" approach destroy the tremendous good will we enjoy throughout the Arab and Moslem world?.. My compliments. Irony is best delivered deadpan, something I often have trouble with. Just for the record, Scott's story was indeed from Newsday, as attributed, newsday.com Some back of the envelope calculations: Iraq's current production rate of 2 million barrels a day could maybe be rounded up to a billion barrels a year, in the near term. If you figure profits of $20/barrel, that's a round $20billion / year, which could support a little more than the current $1 billion / month operation in Afghanistan. It would take a long time to pay off a $200 billion war effort, though. Looting Iraqi oil for 10 years or so would make a good and proper mockery of the "Democracy in Iraq" line, maybe the W crowd could follow up on the "hearts and minds" front by sending Bernard Lewis and Daniel Pipes in to deliver the locally popular "Arab Mind" lecture to the occupied population.

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