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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (257179)	7/8/2008 8:13:02 AM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794032

Ski, you are over-rating a grease monkey I’m not so sure. Money is power. Russians are once again becoming world players - and only because the government was able to get its paws on oil revenues. Putin spread around some of the profits, and all of a sudden he is a popular leader and a genius. Look at Ahmadinejad. He is a nutty guy, much less impressive than Saddam, and looks much less like Stalin’s Arab twin brother. And yet this fellow has the world quite seriously worried. And one of the worries is that - if attacked - he may activate his "assets" worldwide, and no one knows what that could mean. Another worry is that he may be able to precipitate an extremely abrupt onset of a "post Peak Oil" situation. If allowed to keep Kuwait, Saddam would recover financially and militarily. Having swallowed Kuwait for breakfast, he would have Saudis for lunch. After that all remaining local (oil) leaders would line up to kiss his butt and beg to keep their jobs. Next -- a Saddamista revolution in Egypt... then Jordan - once the populations would be promised a share of oil riches. Who knows - maybe even jihadis would find some attractive features in the new, improved, rich and "evolving" Saddam. Or, at least enough jihadis would. Want to know How to Win Friends & Influence People? Try being rich and powerful. Industrial base and multitudes of engineers do not always decide outcomes. Look - how many scientists and engineers are among the Al Qaeda in Iraq? And yet, it took the US (and Iraqi) forces 5 years only to begin to wrestle them down. Ours (and yours) dedicated defeatists still think that our opposition will win - and they actually may, depending on which way political and ideological winds will blow over the next few years.