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"Putin is to host this year's G-8 Summit and he has declared it to be about "energy security".

One of the largest hindrances to getting Iraq off the ground is its oil production, thus the purpose of terrorism is not only about a supposed "civil war" bloodletting but as much about prevention of their oil production.

Now the Marxist oil producing countries around the world that would include Russia are sure not in opposition in making some extra dollars. Russia did have some major contracts with old Saddam that we caused to become nonexistent. I imagine a whole lot of payback is planned because of that."

Many of our enemies are benefiting from a high price of oil, including Iran, Russia, and Venezuela. I agree that this is an important part of their strategy. Even the Democrats in the US are benefiting politically. It hurts China, but no strategy is perfect.

Well the deal with China is that they fear above all things is hordes of starving N.Koreans crossing into China.

In 1950 Stalin made a secret pact with Beijing over N.Korea, as Stalin was to 'free' N.Korea and we were to leave the South at the end of WWII. However, Stalin decided not to leave and boycotted the UN thus the first UN declared war.

The pact Stalin made with China was to send down the bodies of a 120,000 plus into North Korea while he, Stalin secretly gave air support and other hidden aid.

N.Korea was Stalin's step child, not China's, and it was with Yeltsin that the Clintons, Carter and Richardson agreed an adoption with not China. The Clintons state foreign policy was equalize all nations and nuclear was their equalizer.