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To: TimF who wrote (245160)	8/7/2005 2:52:52 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) of 1572507

Even if the US was an oil exporter it would have made sense to liberate Kuwait and protect Saudi Arabia. I've been thinking about the first Gulf War. Iraq took Kuwait because they claim it has historically been a part of "Iraq", and was not entitle to independent state status. Although Iraq was by no means an ally at that time, it sort of makes sense. Why should a collection of princes be allowed to rule the small region of Kuwait and enjoy all the corresponding oil revenues rather than the 24 million people of Iraq benefit from having Kuwait as one its 17 provinces? The better example is Brunei, another little oil country with about 200,000 people. It is surrounded on all sides by Malaysia and ocean, and it only got independence from British rule in 1984. Shouldn't it, and ALL of its oil wealth, be part of Malaysia so that the millions of Malaysians can share the wealth of the Brunei oil fields, rather than have it held in the Sultan's 500 family members (or however many royals there are in Brunei)?

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