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To: Bilow who wrote (130932)5/2/2004 12:18:16 AM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
>> With the Shiites beginning to chafe in Iraq, it's only a matter of time before oil exports get shut off from there.

Carl,

I had been wondering why the Shiia have been so complacent. I think now I know. Their religious leaders are all on the payroll of the US. And possibly, much of the oil money is paid out to them, and in turn, they dole it out in the form of employment, etc, to their constituencies.

In last week's NewYorker, the writer mentions visiting one of the Mullahs in the old Vice President's palace. And he mentions that up river is where Hakim holds his headquarters in another Saddam palace. With a lot of new Mercedes and BMW's coming and going.

So I think as long as the US is diverting the oil money to them, they'll keep quiet.

Sarmad



To: Bilow who wrote (130932)5/2/2004 6:26:19 AM
From: quehubo  Respond to of 281500
 
Carl, the motivation for oil consuming nations to be unified and do whatever is necessary to ensure stable oil flow from the Persian Gulf will come after the economic devastation that a significant disruption in oil exports causes.

When all the newly prosperous Indians, Chinese and others join hundreds of thousands others on the unemployment line because of $100 oil, they may decide they have a vital interest in the gulf area worth fighting and dying for.


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