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To: TigerPaw who wrote (441651)	8/12/2003 10:31:47 AM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

>>Shell along with Chevron, BP and seven other oil giants, have won contracts to buy Iraq's new oil So what?!!

To: TigerPaw who wrote (441651)	8/12/2003 11:06:20 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I see, are Royal Dutch/Shell or BP "American Companies"? I also noticed from your article, the well known oil giant - Sinochem also signed a deal for Iraqi oil. BTW, how many soldiers did China send to the "Coalition of the Willing"? re:"It's payoff time!"

To: TigerPaw who wrote (441651)	8/13/2003 1:47:51 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769670

Yes, it's all about the O.I.L. Military Strikes Out With Acronym Maybe it is all about oil. Since the debate began over war in Iraq, the Bush administration has denied that ousting Saddam Hussein was only about access to petroleum reserves, but left-wing conspiracists have continued to make that claim. Yesterday, U.S. Central Command issued a news release announcing lightning raids in the remote towns of Ain Lalin and Quara Tapa "to isolate and capture noncompliant forces." The name of the mission: Operation Ivy Lightning. Or, if you prefer the acronym: OIL. The military has had all kinds of far-out names for its strikes -- last week brought Operation Soda Mountain -- but it has been careful to avoid embarrassing acronyms. In fact, it was rumored that the overall action was called Operation Iraqi Freedom rather than Operation Iraqi Liberation to avoid the very acronym Centcom produced yesterday for the strike by the 4th Infantry Division (or IV Division -- hence the Ivy). A military spokesman joked, "We struck a dry hole when we tried to find someone to take credit for this one."