At 08:27 PM 09/30/2002 +0100, you wrote: >Here's how the US news media now tends to rpesent the case for US predation >in the Middle East. We're seeing a lot of this kind of 'bonanza' stuff but >what they don't talk about is what will happen if they _don't_ get their >hands on Iraqi oil, for whatever reason. What amazes me about is the >absolute cynicism, the in-your-face thievery and imperial thuggery of this >kind of talk. I suppose it is born of secret desperation. Without Iraqi oil >America is doomed.
Secret desperation or overt greed. ....As for "doomed"...not America, just the folks that currently run things. Joanna
