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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (74524)	7/2/2008 5:29:38 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) of 543488

it is their country and their oil, so who are we to tell them how to think? Who's telling anyone how to think? The oil companies are trying to negotiate a deal, not getting the US army to sorround the Iraqi oil minister with M-1s and Apache's and ordering him to sign. As for my comments, well saying "that's a foolish thought" isn't saying "you can't have that thought". Another issue is I'm not so sure that that particular thought is nearly as common among Iraqis as you seem to think it is. If your point is that it may be a problem, well it might be Then let the oil companies pay for the war. I don't see any connection between your conclusion and the words before it. If the oil companies could and did pay for the war that wouldn't change the nature of any potential problem. And if the cost is somehow associated with their trying to get these contracts than they will just drop out of them and you will have companies like BP and Total get the contracts, or if they had to pay to get the contracts as well, then you would just continue to have an inefficient socialist oil industry in Iraq.

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