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To: zonder who wrote (54649)	10/25/2002 11:55:38 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

>>the friendly government of Iraq would just decide to award the oil contracts to American corporations<< Oh, I get it. The Bush administration really doesn't care about whether Iraq is a threat, they just want their buddies to get the oil contracts. There is another argument that goes - the Bush administration does really think that Iraq is a threat, but the threat is really towards Israel, not the US. Sometimes people believe both of these arguments at once, without realizing how contradictory they are.

To: zonder who wrote (54649)	10/25/2002 12:13:58 PM
From: mistermj	Respond to of 281500

Yes,if it was just about oil,we could drop the sanctions and let Iraq pump away.They will sell it to us regardless of who has the contracts. It is a common theme that the USA is seemingly required to act selflessly whereas it is acceptable for all other countries to act in their own self-interest as a normal matter of course. Of course there is a very clear issue with oil: what would Iraq do with the money it gets from its oil? In that respect, it is plainly obvious that the USA does want to control Iraq's oil.