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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (15381)	10/10/2002 9:16:24 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

If US eased sanctions on Iraq, Saddam would get rich, and the US would not necessarily be better off as a result. This war is about oil and regional affluence. The alternative reasoning (that Bush woke up one day and realized Saddam had weapons) is not that coherent. I am sure there are people out there who believe that the current US administration has no interest in the oil reserves of Iraq, despite the careers in this industry of the president and those around him, his ties and achievements in the oil business, and the rather glaring fact that the guy he put in power in Afghanistan (Hamid Karzai) is an ex-consultant to oil company Unocal in the US, who formerly did negotiations with the Taliban for an oil pipeline. lemonde.fr eurasianet.org. globalresearch.ca corpwatch.org greenpartyus.org ... and now it seems this very pipeline is to be constructed under Mr Karzai: news.bbc.co.uk In my humble opinion, it does not take an oracle to read the future at this point. US takes over Iraq. They put a guy of Iraqi origin in power, someone who is familiar with the oil markets there, someone friendly to the US. Just like Hamid Karzai, former consultant to Unocal, present leader of Afghanistan, currently protected by US army personnel. All this is OK. It is normal, even. A country will do what is in its best economic and political interests. Just don't expect people to believe it is all to protect the free world against evil. Or something.