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To: quehubo who wrote (56944)	7/29/2004 6:41:29 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) of 793912

Okay so we will let UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, and SA fall to our enemies... I understand the importance of a "secure flow of oil from the ME." Why would those countries fall if we got our oil from Mexico and Venezuela and Nigeria or wherever and the French and the Chinese and the Indians etc. bought the ME oil that we're no longer buying? Aren't customers fungible just as oil is fungible? Say that half the families in town buy their Pampers at K-Mart and the other half at Walmart and suddenly everybody switched, would Walmart go out of business? Certainly not. They sell Pampers regardless. You still haven't addressed Kerry's point about our avoiding the ME oil arena so as to limit their exposure to our offensive ways. My question was: why would it be "idiotic" to have the Chinese in their face irritating them and incurring their wrath rather than us?

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