From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 09:00:07 MST
Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> What if
> the Iraqis hold free elections and then decide they don't want to
> sell oil to those countries that played footsie with the Sadaam
> Hussein regime.
Are you including the US in those countries? I think you know as well as I
do that post-war Iraq is going to be a friendly trade-partner of the USA.
That is, after all, the greatest objective of this war -- to remove a
hostile regime. We want to make Iraq into a friendly banana-republic that
grows oil instead of bananas.
> I have also heard it said that the Iraqi oil
> drilling and transportation system is antiquated. As a result it is
> suggested that a post war Iraq oil supply system that was brought up
> to modern standards could triple the amount of oil they have sold
> over the past ten years.
And I would agree if you think this is a good thing. I also think "more and
cheaper oil" must be on the minds of the powers that be. Hubert mania is not
wrong to make this observation.
> I am sure many people can foresee the
> possible changes in the oil market far better than I can so I need to
> see a much more specific statement of what you had in mind.
I'm not sure what you're asking for.
Some famous person once said "War is capitalism with its gloves off." I
think that idea has some relevance here.
Behind all the rhetoric about our "liberation" of "oppressed people" of
"Axis of Evil" countries there are some fundamental economic forces at work.
It's too bad that most American capitalists and politicians are afraid to
admit it in public; our denial of this element only makes us look dishonest
to educated people in other countries who know better.
Now that we're in this war up to our eye-brows, with no turning back, I
think we should stop hiding behind our moral self-righteousness as
"liberators of the oppressed" and start trumpeting the future economic
benefits of this war. The US is not the only country that stands to gain.
-gts
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