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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (24425)	1/2/2005 8:16:06 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) of 90947

<<The notion of usurping Iraq's oil to pay for the war lasted about as long as a snowball in Miami! Then why were so many of you claiming that as the reason for the war and why are so many of you still doing it?>> It was the Bush administration that made that claim. And they fully intended to usurp the oil money...and they have too. Besides being politically incorrect to steal the Iraqi oil, the administration forgot that you can't make any money from oil in a war zone when the dilapidated equipment is being sabotaged, blown up and even stolen. Here's more good questions about why: Message 20908135 <<But again dunder head, Mexico does not have enough oil to meet world or even US demands. So you claim Iraq does?>> Second largest reserve of oil after Saudi Arabia...some estimate it is even larger than the current published reserve number. <<Oilmen pushing for war? Really? Really. The Mexican gov't under Lazaro Cardenas in 1938 expropriated US oil properties without payment worth about US $500 million, a large fortune then. The companies demanded the US gov't go to war to get them back or get payment. Roosevelt had announced his Good Neighbor policy in 1933 and refused.>> And now you're surprised that Oilmen in the white house aren't above war for oil? <<The twists and turns are considerably more complicated, but that's it in a nutshell. It would hardly have been the first or last time a gov't used an army to collect a debt.>> I think you're on to something here Laz. Saddam nationalized Iraq's oil in 1972, at the expense of American and British oil companies. No wonder the Americans and Brits went to war! Why? Are you surprised? Such naivete is touching. Your words...but let them stand. Orca

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