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To: Sig who wrote (104115)	7/5/2003 8:33:03 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 281500

<Consider Iraq oil, known reserves around 300 bil barrels, with probably more to be discovered.Future value at $100 barrel (in 10 or 20 years) is $30 trillion > As conquests go, it was certainly one of the world's most lucrative successes. It should be easy enough to hold onto too because the cash flow can be used to bribe umpty million people into compliance. No wonder there's a bit of argy bargy with locals fighting back, hoping to take over. Of course it wasn't really anything to do with oil. It was just that Saddam's a real meanie. [Mugabe and Taylor will be next because they are a meanies too.] We'll be able to see that's true by what happens to the money gained from the sale of oil. First of all, the UN will NOT be getting any of it, so that's one sign of what's to come. The UN only provided the 'legal', <giggle> framework for the conquerors to take the profits. That doesn't mean they should get a piece of the action. Halliburton and friends of King George II might get a bit, but hey, the victors should get a fair whack of the profits. The Coalition of the Willing to grab the goods should get the primary profits. Mqurice

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