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To: JohnM who wrote (64656)	1/6/2003 4:53:56 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

A radical idea from John le Carre... << ... what are the proper targets of the CIA? That's a policy problem. For me, they are much more widespread than you would suppose. I think they should be extended to the ecology, to the pollution of rivers and those things. There is, for example, one plant in northern Russia that disseminates more pollution than the whole of Scandinavia. One plant alone. I think things of that sort are so life-threatening that they should be included in the CIA's brief ... >> parisreview.com

To: JohnM who wrote (64656)	1/6/2003 8:22:14 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Respond to of 281500

I agree that the Al-Qaeda conflict is not civilizational but a conflict against mafia-like terrorists. The argument, presented by others, that the conflict with Iraq is about something in addition to oil is just a ploy to complicate the problem. It's about oil and nothing else. The US is waking up to the fact that it has to control more and more of the world's oil in order to maintain its position of dominance in the world. The best trick Saddam could pull is to resign, then the present Iraqi oil contracts would remain in force to the disadvantage of the US. Won't happen though. Wouldn't surprise me that Saddam would try to destroy the Iraqi oil fields if the US attacks. He tried that in Kuwait.