I'ts not horizonal drilling but 'slant' drilling into Iraq from Kuwait.
April Glatsby, the ambisador, was reported to have said that the US didn't
have an intrest in Iraq's intentions in Kuwait. That is what was reported so
who knows what was really said. In any case I think SM was completely sand
bagged. Just the boogy man needed at the time. And now.
jh
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From: "Bruce Marcham" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: Iraq response & Constitution


> At what point in the "last time around" was this agreement for a slice of
> Kuwait alleged to have been made?  The only thing I can recollect of that
> nature was a weak response by our envoy a short time before he invaded
> Kuwait as to the US's position on his saber rattling (not that I was
paying
> a whole lot of attention but that was one thing that hit the news back
then
> as to how SH could've gotten the idea that we wouldn't come to the
Kuwaiti's
> aid).
>
> My understanding of the situation was that SH was pissed because the
> Kuwaitis were supposedly taking advantage of the new "horizontal drilling
> technology" (which may be able to drill down and then turn horizontal
though
> I have a real hard time imagining the hardware that can do that), using it
> to cross the Kuwait/Iraq border and take Iraqi oil.
>
> Mind you this is just my understanding/recollection of what took place.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Follett [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 8:57 AM
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> Subject: Re: Iraq response & Constitution
> >
>
> I also understand that the US told Saddam that he could have a piece of
> Kuwait the last time around, some of their oil reserves, only he got
greedy
> and took too much and we therefore had to go in to slap him around as a
> result.
>  >
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