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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: HG who wrote (11857)	2/22/2003 6:10:32 PM
From: HG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

hindustantimes.com Tyrant Bush to pump Iraqi oil to allies: Gulf press Agence France-Presse Dubai, February 22 Gulf newspapers on Saturday accused US President George W Bush of being a "fanatical dictator" who wants to get hold of Iraqi oil reserves and distribute some to helpful regional allies. "As war approaches, the distribution of Iraqi oil to certain countries in the region has already begun," the Saudi newspaper Al-Riyadh said, naming Israel, Jordan and Turkey as the beneficiaries. "To pretend that America's goal is not to invade Iraq and lay its hands on its oil is a new trap designed to deceive a world public opinion that has understood the mentality" of Bush, it added. US Secretary of State Colin Powell promised on February 13 that Iraq's oil belonged to the Iraqi people and that its 22 billion dollars in annual oil revenue would be used "for the benefit of the Iraqi people." Meanwhile, in an editorial titled "one dictator wants another dictator's head," the Emirati daily Al-Bayan compared Bush to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The United States was run by a "fanatical and stubborn dictatorship which only sees things from its point of view, despite (the mass protests worldwide) last Saturday," the paper said. According to Al-Bayan, Bush was more dangerous than Saddam "because he has the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world and is threatening international peace and stability." *I worked for the Al Bayan G