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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (9477)	12/28/2004 10:12:24 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Gus > the US is LOSING control on Middle East oil --whereas China is GAINING control over major suppliers such as Canada and Venezuela... right in the US backyard Indeed, you may be correct. But don't forget that China is only a customer while the US/UK are the suppliers (as they see it). Also, because China is after the oil doesn't mean that the US and UK are not also doing whatever they can, and in their traditional sweet way, to grab all the resources. Your argument is that they are not and that the reason for their presence in Iraq etc is a Jewish-fascist conspiracy presumably to further the expansion of Israel. I accept that the Israeli interest is one of the reasons for the US invasion of Iraq but by no means the only one. In fact, I would argue vehemently that if there was no oil the US would not be wasting its time there.

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (9477)	12/28/2004 3:56:10 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Gus > the US is LOSING control on Middle East oil --whereas China is GAINING control over major suppliers such as Canada and Venezuela... right in the US backyard!!!(2) Meanwhile, Mother Russia is getting pissed off by US interference in its backyard. newsday.com >>Some observers have speculated that Russia could respond to the falling out with the West over Ukraine's presidential election by trying to forge a closer partnership with China and India, the second-biggest customer of Russia's military industrial complex. During his visit to India earlier this month, Putin pushed for a trilateral summit with leaders of India and China and assailed U.S. "dictatorship of international affairs." Andrei Piontkovsky, the head of the Center for Strategic Studies, said Putin wanted to vent his anger at the West by staging the Russian-Chinese military exercise. Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor of Russia in Global Affairs Magazine, also described the maneuvers as a gesture aimed at the West. "It's a response to a series of political defeats Russia has suffered, most recently in Ukraine," Lukyanov told The Associated Press.<<