Thanks, Ken, the money angle is the one I was thinking of when I responded
to Mag.  You're quite right; it will cost us more $$ to invade than buy oil,
and Iraq isn't the only country we buy oil from, anyway.

Kat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Barber, Kenneth L." <[log in to unmask]>
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To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: Iraq


> to put it very bluntly, it would be cheaper to buy oil than invade. and
> iraq does and would sell it to us. the french and german positions is more
> like to be about oil than our position. if we wanted to invade a country
for
> oil, we'd have done it in 1991.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: K. Salkin
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: 3/8/2003 5:57 AM
> Subject: Re: Iraq
>
> Mag, what hard evidence do you have  that this is all to do with oil?
> I'm a
> bit sceptical about that.
>
> Oil may be an issue, but I think it's a minor one.  It's primarily to do
> with Bin Laden and to go after Saddam and finish the job his father
> started.
> Saddam tried to invade Kuwait, probably for the oil for himself,  not
> the US
> invading for oil.  We have got better things to do than to invade
> countries
> for their oil.
>
> Where are you reading that invading Iraq is due to US business
> interests?
>
> Kat
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Magenta Raine" <[log in to unmask]>
> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.c-palsy
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 6:07 PM
> Subject: Re: Iraq
>
>
> > In a message dated 3/7/03 9:22:11 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> > [log in to unmask] writes:
> >
> > > This was last night, in the East Room of the White House.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
> > > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Magenta Raine
> > > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 1:40 AM
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: Iraq
> > >
> > > Perhaps I saw another press conference. (it was the one with the
> blue
> > > background and yellow circles of some kind).
> > >
> >
> > Yep, it was a different press conference. A senator from South
> Carolina
> gave
> > a speech  on this war and pointed out that Israel who is right next
> door
> to
> > Iraq doesn't seem bothered by Saddam at all. When they were, they took
> care
> > of it by bombing a nuke plant in Iraq. So, I really doubt we are
> worried
> > about Saddam's weapons, or liberating Iraq from Saddam, It's about
> oil, I
> > think, and controlling US business interests there. I think we need to
> > understand there is a lot going on behind the facade of the Bush
> > administration.
> >
> > Mag, getting off her soap box!
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