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To: GST who wrote (202789)	9/13/2006 12:46:07 PM
From: Rolla Coasta	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Let's be realistic. Sooner or later, there'll be a nazi state like Iran in mideast, and we keep paying heavy gasoline price for them to operate under its dictatorship regime. The current Saudi & Pakistan government, in fact, are US allies. So don't make things so complicated by going after them. They have common interests with the US & they make money along with the relationship. Iran is in a different footpath. They are the MAIN SOURCE of global terrorism, and they finance the terror groups with oil money. US should use air power to destroy their nuclear program, their air forces, army forces, and concentrate more troops in Iraq instead to counter any Iranian insurgence. Securing Iraqi oilfields is the key to success for US. Make Iraq as part of America for freedom.

To: GST who wrote (202789)	9/14/2006 4:32:11 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Our problems run very deep indeed and there is no factor that looms larger than our dependence on Saudi Arabia for oil. This is the wrong approach to assume that because we depend on a foreign country for a valuable commodity that WE are doing something wrong. We spend tons in South America on coffee beans and the South Americans don't blow up our buildings, we spend loads on Japanese electronics and the Jananese don't blow up our buildings, we spend boatloads on software outsourcing in India and the Indians don't blow up our buildings. If Saudi Arabia is unable to receive the vast wealth that they receive from selling us their oil and simultaneously produce a tolerant population that can accept non-Muslim Saudis as equivalent human beings, then they are the problem, not us. If it weren't for the developed world finding, extracting, refining and delivering Saudi oil to the rest of the planet Saudi Arabia would be amongst the most backwards, bedouin, undeveloped, God forsaken places on the planet - and thanks to the developed world's kindness toward Saudi Arabia (we didn't just take all their oil and leave them on some "reservation" which lacked oil!) they have freeways, hospitals, malls and plenty of air conditioned mosques. If that country's population is going to take that kindness (and money) of ours, and use it to buy bombs to kill us, they are the problem, not the rest of the world.