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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Richnorth who wrote (46790)	9/4/2004 12:44:54 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Oh Geez! I do see the ME is rich with oil. That is precisely why your previous argument that all conflict in the ME results from the Palestinian conflict is offbase. The issue of control of the Persian Gulf's oil is why those wars have been fought in the Persian Gulf over the last three decades. Not because of Palestine. See the point? I'll spell it out more. Saddam invaded Iran because he wanted to annex their oil fields. Ditto for his Kuwaiti invasion. He had plans to go after SA and etc. next. in 1989 Israel bombed a nuclear reactor in Iran 1981. Psst, everyone in the ME but Saddam was glad they did. Though few would say so publicly. Bottom line is the OIL in the Middle East. Yes, and our interest is in the free flow of oil from the ME countries. And our interest is also opposed to one of the countries taking over the others and thereby monopolizing the whole region's oil production capacity. Why we opposed Saddam's attempts to do so. Why we were concerned about Iran at one time, fearful that they would intervene in the Arab countries as the oil producing regions have Shiite majorities. One of the reasons we opposed Soviet expansion in the direction of the Persian Gulf via Afghanistan.