----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 8:48 AM Subject: RE: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance'
> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > > Van: Dan Minette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Verzonden: woensdag 19 februari 2003 1:11 > > Aan: Killer Bs Discussion > > Onderwerp: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance' > > > When the sactions were sorta lifted in the mid-90s, Hussein sold 3 > > million gallons a day. So, how is this about oil? > > For at least half a century the US has been doing its best to present itself > as a country that would like nothing better than to rule the world. ROTFLMAO. That's why the US has puppet goverments in France and Germany, right? If the US wanted to rule the world, it would have. For a few years after the US developed the B52 bomber, it was in the position of winning WWIII with minimal US casualties. It didn't even think of it. Why do you think that European colonies were ended right after the US accepted the role as the most powerful nation in the world? >The world economy runs on oil, Oil sales are about 1.4% of world GDP, for the average oil price of about $24/barrel over the last few years. If one compares the effect of the present spike in oil prices vs. the spike in the '70s, one would see how minimal an effect we have. For example, a $10/barrel spike only adds about 0.6% to the overall inflation rate. >and Iraq happens to be floating on a substantial > part of the world's oil reserve. Therefore, it makes sense that this is > about oil; control over a substantial part of the world's oil reserve gives > whoever controls it an awful lot of power over the rest of the world. The _only_ way that is true is if one nation were to gain control enough so that increases in production elsewhere could not make up the slack if oil were cut off as a weapon. The one possibility of this was Hussein taking over the Middle East, as he stated he wished to. > It wouldn't surprise me if, once the US has gained control over Iraq's oil > reserves, it will use that oil as a weapon ("do what we want or we'll cut > off your oil supply"). Out of curiosity, do you ever look at recent history before arriving at conclusions? When the US simply oversees the selling of the oil and lets the money from oil go into a trust fund to rebuild Iraq, will you admit that you are wrong? Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
