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To: RealMuLan who wrote (61408)	3/31/2005 7:32:46 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Yiwu, Re: How important is the ME oil to the US? Absolutely crucial, to judge by history and a close reading of the neocons' planning documents, such as "Rebuilding America's Defenses", a PNAC White Paper. Re: Why the US spent billions there while only 15% of ME oil was exported to N. America? Oil and money are both fungible. Instability in either is detrimental to American corporate interests. Re: Simply because of exporting "democracy" there? I seems don't get it<g> The British started exporting "democracy" to Iraq in its rhetoric of 1917. The U.S. is simply keeping up a long and proud tradition among Anglo-American imperialists of saying one thing and meaning something completely different. There's an old Richard Pryor joke that explains American statecraft perfectly..... A man walks into his bedroom and finds his wife in bed with another man. “What you’re seeing isn’t happening,” the husband is told. “Are you going to believe me or your lying eyes?”

To: RealMuLan who wrote (61408)	3/31/2005 9:39:19 PM
From: Seeker of Truth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Good evening, Yiwu, It's not necessarily the oil itself that the US big oil companies want, but the cash profit from it. Suppose a country has much oil but little education; the population prays rather than studies. They wade in and charge for the exploration, charge for the extraction, charge for the transportation to markets and by suitable bribery make sure that their payments to the local government are as small as feasible. So they can sell the oil to Europe or to China or to the US, the profit to them is about the same. The US gets only 15% of the ME oil because Venezuela, Canada,the North Sea and West Africa are all closer to the US than is the Middle East, so the transportation costs are less. In Bush's two election campaigns there was a flood of huge contributions from the oil companies. M. B.