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To: TimF who wrote (307834)10/27/2006 7:13:08 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1571813
 
re: Also the government gets the proceeds from the oil sales. Lower proceeds weakens the government compared to the militias and insurgents.

Iraq isn't the US or Saudi Arabia. "The government" is also the Sadr militia for example... you need to learn to think outside your own experience. If you don't think oil money is feeding the "militias and insurgents" you have no clue what's happening in Iraq.