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To: pezz who wrote (31087)4/9/2003 1:38:36 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
<Besides it's the oil weapon that counts. The threat od $40 or higher that can be held over our heads...Until that weapon is taken away we will be at their mercy.>

Pezz, a weapon is force used against somebody. Refusing to sell somebody something you own isn't a weapon. You might really, really want to buy it, but if they don't want to sell, tough luck. That's the free market Pezz. It's called freedom. Nazis and communists and totalitarians don't understand freedom and free markets, but that's how they work.

It's called voluntary interchange of value.

You are proposing monkey-brained theft. Which is no way to run a railroad. It's been tried forever in the red in tooth and claw realm of nature. In the human realm, it's found not as effective as free trade, private property and freedom to own property without some dumb thug stealing it because they want it or need it real bad.

However, in the instance of Saddam, I'm quite happy that the USA steal it from him since he has no legitimacy in owning it, having stolen it at the barrel of a gun from the previous owners. I'd prefer the UN take it and it seems that the USA is planning on using the Iraqi oil to fund Iraq, presumably through the UN at some stage, once the smoke has cleared.

Mqurice
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