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In a message dated 4/8/2003 10:18:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
lycidas2 at earthlink.net writes:


> But the Iraqi perspective you imagine is blind to the world market and
> how it works. 
> Even assuming such a limited perspective there is no justification for
> that point of view because the Anglo-American coalition does not control
> the production/supply/price of Iraqi oil.
> 

Or, what if the newly democratic Iraq decides to sell as much oil
as possible, and with the profits, to enter the arms market (another
market I'm woefully ignorant of) and become the second most
powerful armed force in the world? In the name of Allah?

Is democracy is relative?

respectfully
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