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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (379646)	3/26/2003 4:43:42 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I, too, agree that the headline was a political polemic. The only thing in the post I found interesting was the research into the timeline of events with the Bechtel pipeline proposal - and US/Iraqi relations. I had completely forgotten about the Bechtel proposal (but isn't it ironic that in a new, post-Saddam Iraq, they may finally get their pipeline... just as the Afghanistan pipeline is going forward?) As to why Iraq didn't go for the pipeline proposal... I can only guess they thought it either too expensive vs. the alternatives... or that they believed it would give Israel too much power over them (it would appear to be very easy to disrupt from Israel)... but I am no expert. I do note that the US has pushed very HARD for several proposed pipelines that were considered UNECONOMIC by the affected oil producing nations (for example, running Caspian Sea oil over the mountains and through Turkey so as to bypass the shorter Iranian route, or opposing the Turkmenistan to China proposal) for - presumably - the US's own power-politics reasons.