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To: skortz who wrote (24756)7/26/2003 8:48:10 AM
From: Bearcatbob  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 206094
 
So - I think you are correct - it will likely take another "strong man" to emerge - but I think it is far more likely that there will be a break up of the country. In either case - if the US leaves, the time it will take for oil to flow would increase - not decrease.

bob



To: skortz who wrote (24756)7/27/2003 3:22:44 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Respond to of 206094
 
skortz,

Re: life is to cheap to be meaningful. We here in the west cannot conceive how that type of mentality works


Of course we can. :) 250 years of slavery before segregation and the most massively racially motivated prison system in the world prove that we are perfectly capable of understanding this concept.

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What I can't understand is why the U.S. media isn't better at reporting things like this:

On May 14, 2003 the camera of an Al Jazeera Satellite Channel crew in Basra filmed U.S. trucks transporting Iraqi oil across the borders to Kuwait.

yellowtimes.org

And this:

gasandoil.com

floridatoday.com!NEWSROOM/peoplestoryA1172A.htm