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To: TigerPaw who wrote (814)	4/29/2003 3:31:54 PM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 20773

TigerPaw could while away the hours Conferrin' with the flowers Consultin' with the rain And his head, he'd be scratchin' While his thoughts were busy hatchin' If he only had a brain...

To: TigerPaw who wrote (814)	4/29/2003 5:01:15 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 20773

I certainly don't disagree with you. If we were trying to help people who are being tortured or wantonly killed, we should have started in Africa, where we could have really helped avert some terrible human tragedies, that are occurring on a scale much greater than that in Iraq.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (814)	4/30/2003 6:12:04 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

even if the U.S. sucessfully seizes the oil fields of Iraq, what was really gained? There was never any doubt that the oil would be sold by someone anyway and find it's way into your gas tank. You may have noticed that oil is the deepest-rooted dependency infrastructure on this planet. Everybody is a junkie, except a few countries like France, which generates 80% of its power need from nuclear power plants. The US had everything - technological and military superiority, economic size, etc - everything except the oil, on which they were in a symbiotic co-dependence with Saudi Arabia. With control over Iraq's oil, not only does the US never need fear another ambargo, but can break OPEC and control the price & supply of oil. Oh and of course, whoever controls the supply controls the addict...