Know your friends...
1 posted on
03/14/2003 1:08:55 PM PST by
bruin66
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read later
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Geez, talk about connecting the dots!
3 posted on
03/14/2003 1:41:43 PM PST by
caisson71
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OPEC, Russia and Iraq (Moscow Times)"...The ideal outcome for Russia is exactly the same as that for Saudi Arabia and OPEC, i.e. maintenance of the status quo and the sanctions regime on Iraqi oil. Thus, Russia's opposition to a U.S. invasion of Iraq is completely rational. ...
4 posted on
03/14/2003 1:49:22 PM PST by
Shermy
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Sanctions are a joke. They just create a HUGH black market. Seriesly.
7 posted on
03/14/2003 2:17:16 PM PST by
slimer
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China, Russia, France, and Germany should've long ago realized that nothing - especially not their impotent vetos - is going to stop us from taking care of the business at hand, so it's in their best interests to let it happen and hope to get a slice of the Iraqi oil pie after we get through with them. As it stands now, all they're accomplishing by their short-sighted intransigence is alienating the only world superpower and destroying the only institution - the UN - that they perceive is able act as a buffer on that superpower.
8 posted on
03/14/2003 4:25:00 PM PST by
Mr. Mojo
To: bruin66
It'll be nice to see our "friends" and enemies on their knees after this 2nd step of the war on terror is over....
9 posted on
03/14/2003 4:33:35 PM PST by
b4its2late
(Law not enforced is not law.)
To: bruin66
Good post.
11 posted on
03/14/2003 4:42:11 PM PST by
pttttt
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Wow....
13 posted on
03/14/2003 5:09:45 PM PST by
Tamzee
("Sabotage".... a French word....)
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BTTT
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WOW!!!Glad the French aren't in it for the money. SARCASM OFF.
15 posted on
03/14/2003 5:35:43 PM PST by
LaGrone
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Iraq reverses Russia oil ban
Guardian UK, 1/21/03 (excerpt)
Iraq has moved to mend bridges with the Kremlin and Russian oil companies after a dispute over a multibillion dollar oilfield threatened to jeopardise Baghdad's relationship with a potentially crucial ally.
In what many will see as an attempt by Saddam Hussein to curry favour with Moscow, Iraq agreed to reverse a decision to cut the Russian oil firm Lukoil out of a deal over the huge West Qurna field.
A contract to develop the field was torn up by Iraq in December. Yesterday the reversal appeared to bear almost immediate fruit with Russian diplomats calling for renewed effort to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis in the Gulf.
16 posted on
03/14/2003 5:38:17 PM PST by
P.O.E.
(God Bless and keep safe our troops.)
To: bruin66; ALOHA RONNIE; timestax; Quix
Hillary Rodham Clinton benefits from Saddam Hussein as well.
HRC is scared that a Bush-Administration victory will undermine her chances at winning the presidency in 2004 or 2008.
Never forget... "9-11 should have been ours" wailed the Conspiring Clinton's after September 11!!
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20 posted on
03/14/2003 6:23:57 PM PST by
ppaul
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Blood for oil is okay... as long as it is Iraqis who bleed so that France can keep their sweetheart oil deals.
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bump-edy bump bump bump (thanks!)
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