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To: SilentZ who wrote (256055)	10/18/2005 8:03:48 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 1572942

Many of the people to whom that oil belongs did not ask us to invade. Taking that oil smacks of imperialism. Interesting. Whattaya think? If all 24 million voting age Iraqis (4 million abroad, 20 million in Iraq) were asked in 2000 whether or not they would like a coalition of the willing to forcibly remove Saddam's regime, yes or no, what do you think the split would have been? We'll never know the answer, since Saddam denied the Iraqis freedom of speech, but what do you think? I think Yes would probably have gotten more than 50%. Who knows, maybe "YES and take some small percentage of oil revenues over the next 20 years to pay for his removal" would have gotten over 50%? After all, under Saddam the average Iraqi got virtually nothing from the oil, instead they saw their economy destroyed and their country turned into a pariah state a la North Korea.