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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (93180)	4/13/2003 11:40:08 AM
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///and leave everyone else defenseless. /// Maybe the hospitals and the museum, but not everyone. TV news on Friday evening showed our armed forces carefully guarding the intact Ministry of Oil building in Baghdad. I recognize that there is great and understandable interest on the part of the U.S. in figuring out how much of Iraq's oil resources were sold to the Russians (in particular, but also to the French) by Saddam just before the war began. And there will be huge litigation. Everybody will want the oil and control of how it is to be turned into money. But it does show that when the motivation is there, we are willing to use our troops to prevent looting and enforce order. It simply wasn't there when it came to the hospitals or to the immeasurably valuable (though admittedly not to us), cultural treasures.