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To: tejek who wrote (301018)	8/22/2006 4:23:46 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572326

Does it not strike you as odd that the country with the third largest oil reserves in the world has to import oil products? Not at all. A number of major oil exporters have to import gasoline or other refined products. Iran is one of them, but not the only one. I really don't know why you harp on this minor issues, when there are serious related issues where there are real problems. Pipeline sabotage, corruption in the Iraqi oil industry, not to mention all of Iraq's other problems, are very serious. But for some reason you just love the "Iraq imports oil" headline, so much that you defend it to death, despite the fact that its not true and that the actual truth (that it imports refined products) is relatively unremarkable. I could understand if Iraq had no other problems and you where desperately searching for something negative about Iraq, but that's hardly the case. When you have a million real problems to point out, why seize on this non-issue?