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To: Win Smith who wrote (41619)	9/2/2002 9:07:02 PM
From: epsteinbd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

On Brilliant military campaign : before this thing is over, the US could suffer as many deaths as during its civil war. So if America decides not to intervene and wait for the ugly guy to die naturally, I'd be the first to say that it is a sound policy. In my best judgement. This being said, I have read almost, if not all of Jochen posts in the last six months, (links too )provided they were not in German. I like what he writes, and he knows is. Now he happens that he is the only "survivor" writing on FADG from continental Europe. (I used to be second Euro.) And him being German, it matters to me a lot what he says when America is possibly on the verge of a possible huge military intervention, probably the most dangerous of its history. So with his background, wisdom, the knowledge of history he has regularly provided us with, his sensitivity, etc, you can easily sense that I am worried. So I ask. Because he never appeared to me that he was worried about a long and painful US occupation of post Saddamia. After all when Kennedy spoke in Berlin, everybody knew there was no oil underground there. And finally, it's the second or third time I ask (OK tease) him for more... So it's not only personal, it's also philosophical. Relax Win, I know we are on FADG !

To: Win Smith who wrote (41619)	9/2/2002 9:07:11 PM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Respond to of 281500

" Your Buddy " Saddam says U.S. hates Iraq because.......... his country stops it from controlling oil! heh heh heh what a marroon!what ever gave him that idea? 07:33 PM EDT Sep 02 WAIEL FALEH BAGHDAD (AP) - President Saddam Hussein gave his own explanation Monday of why the United States was insisting on removing him from power - because Iraq was preventing it from controlling Middle East oil. "America thinks it must control the world," he was quoted as saying to an envoy from Belarus. "America thinks if it controls the oil of the Middle East then it will control the world," said Saddam, whose comments were carried by the official Iraqi News Agency. The United States, according to Saddam, has found out that trying to control the world through military means won't work, so it has turned to control Middle East oil, which he said represented 65 per cent of world reserves. "By destroying Iraq, America thinks it could control the oil of the Middle East and force the prices it wants on clients like France, China, Japan and other countries of the world," Saddam said. One reason for the continuation of United Nations sanctions imposed on Iraq since its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, he added, was to "prevent former Soviet Union countries from co-operating economically with Iraq." U.S. President George W. Bush's administration has been pushing for military action to topple Saddam, whom Washington contends is developing weapons of mass destruction despite being prohibited from doing so under UN resolutions. UN weapons Inspectors left Iraq in late 1998, just before punitive U.S.-British air strikes, and Saddam has refused to allow them back in. Iraq insists it has complied with the UN resolutions imposed following its invasion of Kuwait, but has said it wants to continue a dialogue on the inspectors' return, conditions of which Secretary General Kofi Annan has rejected. U.S. officials have indicated that the return of inspectors may not be sufficient to stave off action against Iraq. Bush spokesman Scott McClellan said Sunday that the president agrees that "unfettered inspections" are a required first step toward solving the Iraq problem, but not necessarily enough. On Monday, Saddam said that by controlling world oil and its prices, the United States would be able to determine the growth of world economy. "Europe has found out about this fact lately, so its stand in support of Iraq is not based on humanitarian or legal grounds but in self-defence of its future, independence and freedom of interests," said Saddam. "Iraq's battle is no longer a national one, but it is for humanity . . ."