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To: TimF who wrote (195844)	8/7/2006 7:49:44 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Well, clearly it is just our two WAGs. You have very different views of what constitutes property than I do however. My property title gives me mineral rights to what is under the surface. Here in many regions of the west you can buy property where such rights have been sold already, in which case your property might find itself a mine dump down the road, with nothing you can say about it (or a lake of dirty water in the case of natural gas wells). I find it highly unlikely that any country would not consider a sizeable oil field jointly shared under a common border not to belong to both sides. If one side refuses to accept some form of shared use, I would expect harsher means to follow, assuming the wronged party had the necessary might to accomplish such harsher measures. Which of course the USA does. But more to the point, you seem ignorant of the fact that Saddam actually sounded the USA out on the idea of an invasion over this issue, and was told that the USA viewed the issue as a problem between Kuwait and Iraq, and not something the USA would take sides on. Our ambassador to Iraq took a little flak over that IIRC.

To: TimF who wrote (195844)	8/8/2006 2:19:03 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Absent some agreement Kuwait had every right to pump the oil out of its own territory. The bigger question is whether or not Kuwait should exist at all. The only reason it is an independent country is due to pro-longed British interference/imperialism in the region. What gives 4,000 members of the Kuwait royal family the right to Kuwait's vast natural resources when they should be shares equally among 24 million Iraqis. Kuwait existence is a huge injustice to the people of Iraq, imposed on the Iraqis by the UN. There are a number of these mini-countries (Brunei comes to mind) who's existence serves outsider's desire for oil and not the indigenous people of the region.