On 12 Sep 2003 21:51:34 -0700, (charles liu)
wrote:

Stephen Harding wrote in message ...
charles liu wrote:

And the beauty is Iraqis have to pay for the damage themselves
(reconstruction cost is comming out of their foo-for-oil program and
sale of their national oil reserve into the pockets of Halliburton and
Chevron).

The only parallel I can see is what the colonialists did to China 200
years ago - beat them up, then graft their wealth via war restitution.

Oh yeah! The US is going to become fabulously wealthy over Iraq.

I guess you haven't seen the projected figure for oil revenue for the
next 20 years in Iraq. I think it's into range of 10s, maybe 100s
trillion dollars.

So? The Iraqis might get rich, but the US will not. We are not
thieves, and Iraqi oil money will go to the Iraqis.

Al Minyard

Sure not looking that way right now!


SMH