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To: TimF who wrote (307545)	10/24/2006 7:56:50 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) of 1583097

Tim, we've already spent $500B in Iraq. Every month, we spend another $8-9B. We're in the middle east with our troops because we need a stable middle east to supply the world's oil. We're also there because terrorists funded with oil money attacked us and we're trying to fight them in their own lands, etc etc, according to Bush. NONE OF THAT WOULD BE NECESSARY if the Middle East went back to being an impoverished desert with no oil money. Saving this country another $500B through getting off the oil would be plenty of economic justification. Focusing on alternatives and making sure the US got the lion's share of the patents would pay for itself many times over. That would be another economic justification. It was estimated that the direct and indirect costs to our economy of 9/11 approached $1 trillion. Denying terrorists their oil money funding would be a way to avoid another 9/11. That is another economic justification. Do I need to go on? Or are you beginning to believe oil independence is worth what we'd have to spend to get there?

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