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To: combjelly who wrote (310616)	11/13/2006 3:18:23 PM
From: 10K a day	Respond to of 1577883

>There would not be nearly the fighting there is now if Iraq wasn't sitting on the second largest oil reserves in the world<< Golly. You think the fact that 75,000 -150,000 have been killed might have something to do w/ it??? I dunno. Maybe it's just me. But Iraq didn't attack us on 911 so maybe we shouldn't have kicked the living shlt out of their country...

To: combjelly who wrote (310616)	11/13/2006 5:10:03 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577883

"There would not be nearly the fighting there is now if Iraq wasn't sitting on the second largest oil reserves in the world." That may be part of it. But the larger part is like in the Balkans. They just plain don't like each other. Haven't for a very long time. That's true to a degree but it doesn't explain the fighting between Sunnis and Sunni Kurds. Shia/Sunni animosity has been around for a long time.....since 1000 CE. It has not been nearly as volatile in the last 500 years as it is in Iraq now. I still think its the oil that is a huge catalyst.