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To: TigerPaw who wrote (1681)	7/15/2005 6:23:41 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 541941

Building bases in Saudi Arabia was bad advice. No, under the circumstances it was good advice. We needed the bases to support "The Gulf War", and if we were not going to drive on to Bagdhad to take out Saddam having the basis in north east Said (far away from Mecca and Medina) made sense. When we used Kuwait to stage the 2nd war, we took up practically half of Kuwait. For the months precdeding an invasion that might have been acceptable, for an indefinite period of time after the 1st war it probably would not have been. It became too obvious that the bases were close to the oil fields, and not in defense of another move by Iraq. That statement doesn't make any sense. The oil fields are something we would want to defend if Iraq made another move. Also the bases where located near Iraq, as is a lot of the oil. Furthermore a number of the bases already existed before the US sent any forces in. They were pre-existing Saudi bases, some of which we expanded, some of which didn't even really need expanding. For that matter even if it was some sinister plot to grab Saudi oil, we wouldn't have needed major bases near the oil. Not to mention the fact that we neved did make any attempt to seize control of the oil. Tim

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