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To: JDN who wrote (53579)	4/4/2003 11:50:42 AM
From: Brian Sullivan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Also the UN has about 40 billion dollars in the Iraq oil for food account, which also is enough to rebuild half of Iraq.

To: JDN who wrote (53579)	4/4/2003 2:52:32 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I have often thought that grabbing lucrative oil contracts and getting sweetheart deals for the major oil companies was in the back of Mr. Bush's mind for stimulating growth in the US economy. Those oil wells + the unexplored areas in Iraq are what separates this situation from that in Afghanistan. As the saying goes: "to the winners of war go the spoils" --- by implication, the big losers will be France and Russia. I don't think we'll have too tough a time negating their existing contracts w/the Hussein government. Sometimes a war has a way of convincing everyone to line up behind the big dog, and sometimes it has the opposite effect, and sometimes it has no effect at all. This is the dawning of the "Bush Doctrine" in foreign policy. We shall see if it works. So far the "butter-to-guns" philosophy has failed to do anything but prolong the recession. That may change with the Iraq war. If it doesn't, Bush is history in 2004, war or no war. My own sense is that Mr. Bush is good at wielding the big stick, like his dad. But, he is not a statesman, and he is not a good leader on domestic policy. If he is successful at clearing out all the knuckleheads in the world who would do us harm, he will have taken care of business and the American people will be grateful for his efforst and ready for a change of leadership that will take us back to a peacetime government and peacetime economy.