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To: stockman_scott who wrote (40953)	8/30/2002 11:29:19 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Some, inevitably, prefer to see the Iraq dispute between father and son in terms of rival conspiracies: international industrialists and the oil interests on one side, the Zionists on the other. There may be something to that, but not much. The most bitter and influential opponents of the Saudis in the U.S. are not Jews or Zionists but rather the many U.S. military officers and diplomats who have served in Saudi Arabia and who despise the princes and abhor the fanaticism they propagate. That sums it up well.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (40953)	8/30/2002 1:51:09 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Look Carranza - oil, oil, oil.... : <President George W. Bush and his closest advisors see the cheap oil of Arabia as the greatest disincentive to the development of alternative sources of energy, including new oil outside the Middle East--in Alaska, for example. Instead of valuing the Saudi policy of keeping oil below $30 per barrel, they see it as a frustrating obstacle to any rational energy policy. And, of course, it reduces the earnings of Texan and other domestic oil producers. Since Sept. 11, Bush junior and his camp have received an entire education in how Saudi oil revenue is spent: in part for the profligate luxuries of more than 5,000 princes with their large families and in part to operate Islamic centers and madrasas (Islamic schools) around the world that propagate the most extreme fundamentalism--the creed of Osama bin Laden. > That was a good article [because it agrees with my view of course]. Mqurice