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To: Chas. who wrote (114663)	9/13/2003 8:52:44 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

"France, Germany, Russia were looking out for themselves and their fat Iraqi Oil/Oil related contracts, in the Billions each....they played their best hand and lost" Doesn't look like this game is over.. They may still win the oil contracts. If it brings about a safer Iraq without political influence on how Iraq turns out and we get out faster, than why not let them in?

To: Chas. who wrote (114663)	9/13/2003 8:58:25 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

It is illegal to use the resources of Iraq to pay for the cost of the US army of occupation. That is where 90% of the money is going -- only a small fraction of what we are spending will do anything to reconstruct Iraq. Given the mess we are in, I find it hard to understand how you can say that France and Russia "lost". So far, America is the big loser. Specific special interests connected to the Bush Administration might win big contracts because of the US invasion, but America has not won anything at all at this point, except the right to pump hundreds of billions of dollars to pay for occupying Iraq -- not to mention thousands of wounded and hundreds of dead young Americans.