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To: Keith Feral who wrote (204274)	9/25/2006 11:19:37 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"Once OPEC loses crude oil exports, they cease to have any economic way of generating revenues. Will the Bin Ladens and other leaders wish they had tried to put an end to terrorism against the countries importing all of their crude? I'm glad to see the Pope start talking some sense into the Muslims about intolerance. They need a good lesson in manners and good etiquette. " It has been proven that national economies that derive a substantial portion of their revenues from resource extraction are most prone to subversion into an inequitable and ultimately tyrannical rule. Economic Freedom follows political freedom in most countries. Economically free countries tend to be the most economically successful countries. A free Iraq has a huge potential to pull the region up out of the economic doldrums their non oil industries seem stuck in.