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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (27238)	4/1/2008 12:33:31 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 71588

Re: [a total meltdown in Iraq will certainly help] "Interesting thought. It would not help America though." Why not? The lowest oil prices America has seen in recent decades was when Saddam was fighting against the Iranians --- and both sides had no choice but too pump full-out to pay for the very expensive business of war. Both sides were also too drained and occupied for much out-of-region mischief... and both regimes pushed to the edge of total collapse (Now picture the same sort of conflict --- only this time pitting the Sunnis [of the Gulf states, the Saudis, and perhaps even others] against the Shiites and Persians, likely fought across the proxy of 'Iraq'....) What great benefits could be produced out of such?