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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (67050)	1/19/2003 4:43:59 PM
From: Rascal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"$3 trillion is quite a good thing to take over [it's bigger than Microsoft, IBM, Intel and QUALCOMM combined and they had to work for decades to attain that value - a quick onslaught and $3 trillion is in the bag]." So will we just call it part of our OIL Petroleum Reserve? Will we become part of OPEC? Will it be part of the Depatment of Energy? Who explores, digs, removes, refines, prices and markets? How are vendors chosen? Rascal@ devilinthedetails.com

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (67050)	1/19/2003 5:04:43 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The idea of the US annexing or colonizing or somehow stealing Iraq is silly. In some form or another, Iraq will remain Iraq, and its oil will be ultimately controlled by the locals, and locals, albeit not all of them, will continue to enjoy the revenues. Iraq, yes, tried to steal Kuwait, and I remember how Saddam back in the early 70’s was announcing his life’s goal of uniting all Arabs under one flag. This was not supposed to happen as a result of a referendum. Arabia would be next, and others would follow, and we would have to deal with an unassailable nuclear megalomaniac, who would no longer be seen as maniacal, and would have by then really become megalo… This world is becoming too small to allow such things to happen.