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To: TigerPaw who wrote (372155)	2/27/2008 1:52:38 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577024

Now oil companies are neocons. Well, lets ignore that. What coups has the US supported in the ME - one in Iran in the early 1950's. Even there, the coup would likely have gone forward w/ or w/o the support of Britain and the US - Mossadegh's gov't was staffed by Communists and the Iranian military was unlikely to sit back and let the country become a Soviet-dominated puppet state. Any other coups supported by the US? Perhaps more recent? Um, I think no. Dictatorships? Sorry, thats all the ME world can manage on its own - with no help from us. The US has however created two new democracies in the ME - Iraq and Afghanistan. For some reason, liberals hate this and wish the monster Saddam and the Taliban had been left in charge. Examination of the record shows that its liberals who support dictatorships in the ME - the bloodier and the more anti-American the better. Rivalries? Ha ha. Yes, there w/be no rivalries in the ME but for us. What nonsense. This is just the normal liberal blame-America-for-everything attitude. The rivalries - Kurd vs Arab, Kurd vs Turk, Persian vs Arab, Turk vs Arab, Arab vs Jew, Turk vs Armenian, Turk vs Greek, Shiite vs Sunni, Islamists vs secularists, Arab vs black, and on and on and on - do not exist just because some evil plotters in Washington DC want to stir up trouble. Their thought was that if the countries were disfunctional, then the oil companies would have free rein How mindlessly stupid one has to be to write that. The ME countries are dysfunctional because of the underlying culture. The US oil companies have had little or no involvement in the ME for decades. Have you not heard of Saudi Aramco, the Kuwait National Oil Company, etc etc? All the ME countries have national oil companies which control their own oil reserves and operations. Oil company investments in the ME were nationalized in the '60's and '70's. Only within the last few years have a few countries opened up to US investment - because they needed foreign capital and technology. The list of countries where US oil companies operate in the upstream is small - Libya, Qatar, and an emirate or two. As for the big resource rich countries - SA, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran - there is NO US oil company investment there and hasn't been for decades. Thanks for illustrating just how out of touch with reality liberals really are.