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To: shades who wrote (27315)	4/12/2005 8:39:59 AM
From: zonder	Respond to of 116555

From your link, what I see is that in a one hour interview, Perkins mentions "water" once, and I cannot fathom what he meant by "Iraq controls a great deal of water", given that it is the down-river country. That is, Tigris and Euphrates flow to the sea after Iraq. So controlling Iraq means controlling ONLY Iraq's water fortunes, nobody else's. [And an immovable sword hanging over your head only is not really "power" over anybody else] So what is US going to do with those two rivers? Fill up tanks and whisk them away to North America? Channel them across thousands of kilometers to Israel? I don't think so. again I ask why would Mr. Perkins say Iraqi water was important and you think that is a joke? He doesn't really SAY it's "important". He says Iraq "controls great deal of water". Sure, that's true. But I cannot imagine what use it would do to anyone to take control of those two rivers within Iraq. Except maybe starve the Persian Gulf from their inflows. LOL. Anyway, I spent enough time on this non-subject. Have a nice day.