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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (207102)	10/27/2006 2:59:01 PM
From: Keith Feral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If the US is supplying all of the money for any restructuring, we should naturally be allowed to award the contracts to US companies. It would be ridiculous for US money to go to French oil companies to rebuild the oil infrastructure in Iraq. I fail to see what the US has won in Iraq, which is why the US needs to gradually pull back from Iraq and let them take care of their own domestic security issues. Iraq isn't the only place in the world where 50 people a day are getting killed. We don't need any of Iraq's oil. Why don't we let them fizzle things out for a few years until they sort things out and the Shiites contain the Sunni violence? The next thing the liberals will be saying is that the US is dragging it's feet on the war in Iraq to prevent further oil reserves from hitting the market. Maybe big oil wants to keep up the violence in Iraq so that the price of oil stays high. These conspiracy theories are great if you are trading crude oil futures, but I don't see much reality to the assertions.