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To: Dale Baker who wrote (31444)	11/10/2006 10:36:46 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541777

Interesting table, Dale. A little hard to read since the columns and the column headings get out of line. You suggest that Iraq presently produces 2 to 2.5% of world production. Were it to be completely shut down, that doesn't strike me as a catastrophe but certainly a problem. The bigger problem raised by the poster is the prospect of a regional conflict that would endanger the supply of ME oil. Presumably, that's one of the fairly serious things the Baker/Hamilton folk are addressing. Strikes me that it's in the interests of a great many folk to get that right. Not just the US. And it takes a lot of folk pulling the oars, not only Europe, China, Japan, etc., but ME countries as well. I would expect that a lot of pressure could be brought to bear on the Iraqi Sunnis and Shias to counter a regional civil war if it were well organized.