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To: Road Walker who wrote (287656)	5/11/2006 10:56:07 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571928

weeklystandard.com Fidel's Oil Play Castro has given the green light to China and other nations to drill for oil in the Florida Straits. According to the New York Times, In 1977, the United States and Cuba signed a treaty that evenly divided the Florida Straits to preserve each country's economic rights. They included access to vast underwater oil and gas fields on both sides of the line. Now, with energy costs soaring, plans are under way to drill this year — but all on the Cuban side. With only modest energy needs and no ability of its own to drill, Cuba has negotiated lease agreements with China and other energy-hungry countries to extract resources for themselves and for Cuba. Cuba's drilling plans have been in place for several years, but now that China, India and others are involved and fuel prices are unusually high, a growing number of lawmakers and business leaders in the United States are starting to complain. They argue that the United States' decades-old ban against drilling in coastal waters is driving up domestic energy costs and, in this case, is giving two of America's chief economic competitors access to energy at the United States' expense.... Cuban officials invited American oil companies to bid for the other leases on the Cuban side of the Florida Straits even though drilling in Cuban waters would violate the United States' longstanding trade embargo against Cuba. Wonder how good our slant drilling capabilities are nowadays

To: Road Walker who wrote (287656)	5/11/2006 11:09:10 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571928

Of course they dislike us Dude, your view is not a given - explain yourself. Why would the Omanis hate Americans, but be indifferent to Brazilians and Chinese for reasons other than Israel? "Of course they dislike us"!? You must be as unpleasant in person as you sometimes are on this thread. Most people that I meet actually like me (believe it or not)!

To: Road Walker who wrote (287656)	5/11/2006 11:14:14 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571928

but having a puppet nuclear power in their back yard insures that they will sell us their oil. Ideological? Give me a break. It's strategic. Oil producing nations will sell their oil to whatever entities pay for it. We don't need a nuclear power friend in Arabia to get the Arabians to sell the only valuable thing they produce. Their authoritarian leaders will do that without any push from Americans. Support for Israel comes from idealogy of supporting democracy, supporting capitalism, and what has been presented to the American public as supporting a people (the Israelis) who are allegedly very much like Americans. And Israelis are very much like Americans in many ways other than their reluctance to grant citizenship to non-Jewish people (all men are not created equal in Israel) and the fact that their borders are not defined or accepted by their neighbors.