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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (98687)4/29/2003 2:48:17 PM
From: benwood  Read Replies (2) of 132070
 
If I'm not mistaken, OPEC does not set prices, but rather targets prices and sets production quotas.

I didn't think the war was a preemptive attack at all, but rather part of the stated foreign policy of beginning a makeover of the middle east. It was couched as a pre-emptive attack however. Having a pre-emptive policy does not mean you attack everybody -- I'm sure they still look for bang for buck.

The Al Qaida link -- doesn't sound like there's much to it, yet. Will wait and see. In the Guardian, guardian.co.uk they quote "We are aware of fleeting contacts [between Baghdad and al-Qaida] in the past, but there were were no long-term official contacts," a well-placed source told the Guardian yesterday. "The documents do not take things further forward"

France -- I remember reading something about this, but oddly have searched three newspapers and cannot find an article about it. I suspect it is either unimportant or inaccurate. If you happen to have a link I would appreciate it.

edit: for what it's worth, somebody (like France) should not be punished for dissenting; in this case, I think France should be punished for a flawed process at the UN and for their acting bigger than their britches. But I think the US process was flawed as well.
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