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To: TimF who wrote (74526)	7/2/2008 5:52:13 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543497

Tim; then you would just continue to have an inefficient socialist oil industry in Iraq. If they want an inefficient socialist oil industry - that is their business not ours. My thinking is this; We have a war in Afghanistan that needs our full unbridled attention. It is a war of necessity and we are now going into our 7th year with absolutely no end in sight. Last month was the deadliest month we have had there. Iraq is causing us to lose Afghanistan and lose on the world stage. If the Iraq war is necessary - then somebody owes it to the American people to tell us what we are doing there. The reasons have shifted with the seasons and if Bill Clinton had put us in this exact mess, conservatives or any sane American would be screaming for his neck. If conservatives would only be honest about this, perhaps Americans could come together with resolve to clean up George's mess. But conservatives won't be honest and so the war will go on forever and we put our Afghanistan mission in danger. Meanwhile oil hits weekly new highs and GM stock hits a low of single digits - the worse since the mid 50's. These are troubling times for our country and we better stop digging this hole or our economy may not survive. Steve

To: TimF who wrote (74526)	7/2/2008 10:10:38 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543497

>>If the oil companies could and did pay for the war that wouldn't change the nature of any potential problem. And if the cost is somehow associated with their trying to get these contracts than they will just drop out of them and you will have companies like BP and Total get the contracts, or if they had to pay to get the contracts as well, then you would just continue to have an inefficient socialist oil industry in Iraq.<< Tim - In their recent testimony on Capitol Hill, oil executives testified that one of their major problems is the fact that they have to compete with huge, state-owned oil companies like Saudi Aramco. These socialized oil companies have also been criticized by you and others as inefficient. My question is, if they are so inefficient, why can't the private oil companies compete with them? - Allen