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---Azimaith
I keep hearing Oil Oil oil, we could have invaded saudi arabia if we wanted oil, they have more, we haven't even bought oil from iraq since before desert storm, the only people who were well known to buy from iraq were, surprise, france and germany.
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Surprise, surprise - the US *had* been buying even more Iraqi oil than France and Germany combined...
"Iraqi oil became a big part of U.S. energy supplies despite an
overall drop in oil imports," according to the American Petroleum
Institute. Iraq has become the fifth largest supplier of U.S.
imports. In fact, crude oil imports from Iraq doubled last year,
from 336,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 1998 to 712,000 bpd a day as of
October last year, according to Ronald Planting, the Petroleum
Institute's information and analysis manager. Yet, as recently as
1996, the U.S. imported no Iraqi oil."
--U.S. Using UN program to steal Iraq's oil, Lee Siu Hin
CovertAction Quarterly, Summer 2000, P.32
[ 10-06-2003, 08:46 PM: Message edited by: Skunk ]