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To: Road Walker who wrote (387893)	6/2/2008 12:55:59 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575184

a likely outcome when we withdraw the majority of our troops is that the Iraqi government will be tied at the hip with Iran. Together they will control just slightly less oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. Iraq's exports have risen over the past year. A fact. Tied to Iran? No, Maliki and Sistani aren't going to go the Iranian mullah route. The Iraqi government has more support in its country than the mullahs do in Iran. Now if we had foolishly retreated as the left has been urging, Iraq would have ended up an Iranian puppet by now. Even the passive Jimmy Carter produced the Carter doctrine that said the free flow of oil from the Persian Gulf is a vital interest of the US which we'd fight about. Now superseded by the Bush preemptive doctrine.... No, the Carter doctrine is still in place. The oil market is free. Its just that many of the big players - Nocs - don't act like normal profit seeking market operators. That makes supplies tighter than they would be if profit seeking companies were able to operate in SA, Russia, Mexico, VZ, Iran, Kuwait, Iraq, etc. That sounds to me like a contradiction... you say the "oil market is free" and then go on to explain why it isn't. The international oil market is free. The market within many countries isn't. And many NOC's because of political interference don't act like profit seeking free market operators. Maybe that will be clearer.