----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Denton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 6:39 PM Subject: Re: Bitter Fruit
On 12/9/05, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My response to this seems to have been lost. There are a couple of parts > to what I want to say. The first part will address some of the information > given by Gary. The second part will detail a fraction of the news articles > indicating that US companies are not the first in line for oil development > contracts. >Your list is of recent contracts after things went to Hell in a >handbasket. My later post I actually stopped pulling news accounts of >contracts in 2003 except for a very recent post of the type of >contracts being given. There is a clear difference between what was happening in the >first year and before and what is happening now. Between their plans for >strategic control of oil financed by Iraqi oil and the current $100 >billion toilet. Well, my first source said: "BAGHDAD: Iraq's oil ministry has awarded the country's first post-war oilfield development contracts to Turkish and Canadian firms, an oil official said on Thursday." So what contracts were awarded before the first contract? There may have been a consulting contracts before this, but this is a multiply sourced very specific reference to a tracable contract that have specific companies listed as participating in the contracts. I see nothing so concrete from your quotes. It's all about secret plans to start a war to do something that never started to happen. Further, the people in question would be starting a war to decrease their own companies net worth and income. <snip> >> Finally, I think there is an unwritten assumption underlying this analysis. >> It is that Hussein never has and was very unlikely to ever pose a >> significant future risk to the United States. No reasonable person could >> even think so. > >> Is my reading of that assumption valid? >I think that is a fair assumption. So, his invasion of Kuwait was just a local matter, and didn't pose any risk at all to the US or the world at large? Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
