To: quehubo who wrote (109596 ) 8/4/2003 1:11:30 AM From: Bilow Respond to Hi quehubo; Re: "Let me enlighten you then and save you from further anguished posts based on your misunderstanding of the historical facts and present reality. "Our sons and daughters are making the ultimate sacrifice in order to ensure oil flow is stable from the Persian Gulf. "So let me ask you Bilow... If it's proven that there was Saudi complicity in 9/11, and they fail to make sufficient "amends" for it, should Bush overthrow the Saudis? #reply-19173625What price did we pay after Saddam invaded Iran? Neither supplier has recovered yet. "U.S. NAVY CRISIS RESPONSES, 1980s ...destruction of an Iranian oil drilling platform ; 14 April 1988, FFG-58 Roberts struck a mine; 18 April, retaliation operations against two Iranian oil platforms led to a day-long naval battle in which many Iranian naval units were damaged or sunk; fas.org but to blame this on Saddam / Iraq is silly. That war ended 14 years ago. And Iranian oil production was falling due to instability in Iran and deliberate economic policy of the new Iranian government well before the war started with Iraq in September of 1980. This bias was reflected in a series of official proclamations ... reversing the Shah's course of modernization and secularization ... limiting oil production to domestic economic need "rferl.org Following the quadrupling of oil prices in the last quarter of 1973, prices remained relatively stable from 1975 to 1978. During this period, Mohammad Reza Shah encouraged a high level of oil production and increased spending on imported goods and services and on military and economic aid to a small number of Iran's allies. Khomeini's government shifted the emphasis by decreeing a policy of oil conservation, with production reduced to a level sufficient to do no more than meet foreign exchange needs . countrystudies.us before ...short-lived abatement in the strike fever, and oil production improved. persuaded the oil workers to pump enough oil to ease domestic hardship , however, and some normalcy returned to the bazaar in the wake of Bakhtiar's appointment. But strikes in both the public and the private sector and large-scale demonstrations against the government continued. When, on January 29, 1979, Khomeini called for a street "referendum" on the monarchy and the Bakhtiar government, there was a massive turnout. geocities.com After he invaded Kuwait? "Of course you would have been happy to continue paying Saddam enabling him to continue to be able to strike back at his enemies again one day through his repeated acts of aggression. "
