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To: pezz who wrote (30999)	4/7/2003 7:24:00 PM
From: Behind Blue Eyes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

GRUB If the Price of oil isn't maintained reasonably high.... big problem rebuilding Iraq plus all the talk of oil appropriation will leave a little rancor going around no ? What if the new Iraqi government, for the Iraqi people, of the Iraqi people decides they don't particularly want a low price for oil ? nudge nudge wink wink If the price of oil is too high then that's no good for the rest of the world or them either for that matter. Kudlow would like to see the oil will be privatised so that means OPEC will not be involved. Gee who's gonna buy it and for how much ? Of course Kudlow is in How come our oil is under their sand camp.

To: pezz who wrote (30999)	4/8/2003 8:45:32 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

The millions put in the ovens might not share your views if they had the opportunity of an opinion that life gives us. Of course, attacking Germany and killing hundreds of thousands of Germans would be a small price to pay for avoiding accepting hundreds of thousands more Jewish refugees, sending significant Western forces to protect the Polish ally from potential German attack etc.... My father was very lucky to eventually get a visa to Britain in March 1939 and only because his parents were already there and they were already there because they had enough money to do so. been able to get away with MURDER because we have been afraid of the oil weapon. There's nothing unreasonable about $20-30 a barrel oil.... those countries should get some return on liquidating a nonrenewable resource. You seem about the only guy I come across who says that oil justifies the war. Normally people say oil doesn't justify the war and the pro war camp says "oil has nothing to do with it". Well we know oil does have something to do with it, which is protecting Saudi Arabia, Kuwait etc. from the Iraqi threat. Other countries without oil might not be so lucky in getting Western protection. But that is not unreasonable.... that is the real world. Attacking Iraq to put their oil on the market at the low rates Western countries want is a different matter. David

To: pezz who wrote (30999)	4/8/2003 9:28:52 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Actually Pezz I think I am very pragmatic not idealistic. I said "peace is better than justice", I said that the Israeli attack on the Iraqi reactor was a good thing despite it violating Iraq's sovereignty etc. After Germany entered the Sudetenland in 1938 they should certainly have been attacked just like after Saddam's invasion of Kuwait. Up to that point containment was an appropriate strategy. If April Glaspie had told Saddam that the US would throw him out of Kuwait and try to destroy his regime if he invaded Kuwait do you think he would have done it? Instead she said they had "no opinion on disputes between Arab countries". Seems liek we keep making the same mistakes...