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To: Lou Weed who wrote (132563)	5/10/2004 11:57:21 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Of course not....I guess we both agree that it's all about the $$$$ that the oil generates. I knew we agreed on something! But there's also another difference.. The Islamo-Fascists want to control the oil in order to gain leverage and control over the West. Whereas, the primary US interest has always been to maintain the flow of it.. I don't think we're so interested in actually controlling it, or siphoning off the profits.. We've always tended to perceive paying for imported oil as our form of "foreign aid" to the mid-east.. Unfortunately, most of that has been mis-spent by corrupt and totalitarian regimes and not on developing viable and moderate economies. Hawk