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To: Keith Feral who wrote (207094)10/27/2006 10:17:51 AM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Two quick points:

(1) It was not the Iraqi law that was the problem but international law which prevents the winning side in war to assign lucrative contracts to themselves at the cost to the conquered nation.

(2) It was never about how much oil US imports from Iraq (or anywhere else for that matter) but how much control US has over it and how much profits US companies derive from it.

later,
ST