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

To: ManyMoose who wrote (16502)	11/3/2002 7:44:29 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

When Saddam inquired of our ambasadore whether he should go into Kuwait or not it was analgous to proposing a merger, a hostile merger, but he was not anticipating much loss of life for destruction, just a consolodation in the ownership of oil wells which would allow his production capacity to be merged with the much better transport facilities in Kuwait. Just a business deal, and that's how the ambasodore saw it. You might ask yourself why George Bush Sr. took several days to condem the invasion of Kuwait. Saddam seemed poised to run the combined operation through his oil companies (those that serviced Iraq). The Kuwait deals would be cancelled along with the country. The big loser in this cancellation was Chevron via it's Aramco subsidiary. There is every reason to believe that Saddam was planning to continue to sell oil to the west, he liked the money, but he was changing oil partners and in the Bush world Chevron is more important than Royal Dutch Shell or British Petroleum. Chevron was about to loose millions, and so Bush gave Saddam an ultimatum that was already too late to keep. Saddam has always been bad, but his real failing was knowing who was who on the oil company boards and negotiating his takeover of Kuwait with an ambasadore instead of the oil company lawyers. TP