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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (134423)	5/26/2004 3:50:18 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<Had he kept his commitments in the cease-fire agreement, he could have gotten rid of the sanctions within a year. > Nadine, keep in mind, those commitments were made under duress, rather than on a voluntary basis. Even with voluntary agreements, the USA unsigns them, which is quite funny; why bother signing anything? Like Adolf and the Germans, Saddam considered his Treaty of Versailles to be onerous and unreasonable. Denying reparations and reoccupying the Rhine seemed like a good idea to assert sovereignty. Maybe he could have got rid of the sanctions and maybe he couldn't. I still think there have been umpty $billions in profits made by BP/Exxon/Saudi Arabia/French noocular reactors etc from much higher prices than if Saddam's oil was being sold flat out. Keeping a major competitor's product off the market is invariably attractive to people. When sanctions were first put on him, he asked whether they'd be lifted if he pulled out of Kuwait. I thought of course they would. But Saddam was wiser than me. He knew the objective was sanctions. Look how much money Saudi Arabia is raking in now with oil and their production rate at all time highs. I think they will make sure King George II is very well looked after if he should lose the election. I expect they'll cut oil prices as much as they can before the election to help his return to power. Too hell with whining from their OPEC cartel market manipulation mates. Where is USA anti-trust/anti-monopoly law - poor $ill Gates gets foaming at the mouth maniacs on his case, [in Europe and USA], but OPEC's cartel is a good friend of the USA government. Mqurice