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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (68987)	1/26/2003 8:20:19 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

No, Maurice. If we just wanted the oil, we could have done a deal with Saddam long ago - lift the sanctions in exchange for exclusive oil contracts. Saddam has indicated more than once that this would have been fine with him. Nice cheap oil, good for economy, dole out the contracts to the oil companies, everybody happy, right? It's certainly not worth spending $100 billion or whatever it's going to cost just for the oil. If Saddam is not a menace, then we're about to waste a whole lot of money, and lives too, in Iraq. But he is a menace.