From: Kevin Freels (megaquark@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 12 2003 - 21:42:32 MDT
Did I miss something? I wasn't aware of any tankers of free oil going into
the hands of our government recently.
Kevin Freels
----- Original Message -----
From: <Dehede011@aol.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: barbie promoted to threat
> In a message dated 9/12/2003 12:45:02 PM Central Standard Time,
> charleshixsn@earthlink.net writes: And that's probably why we invaded the
middle east. To
> buy us a few more years. Doesn't make it ethical, but makes it a bit more
> understandable. (It's also why France got so pissed off at us. They had
made
> arrangements to acquire that oil, and we stole it. Were I France, I'd be
pissed
> off too. But their arrangements were only slightly more ethical than
ours.
> Well, maybe twice as ethical. But still pretty far from any base line.)
>
> Charles,
> Amidst that flock of charges and off hand opinions I believe you
made
> one flat statement that might be pinned down as fact or fiction. As you
made
> the statement "...we stole it..." would you please document that remark?
> Ron h
>
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