Iraq

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on 2/8/03 7:29 PM, Terrance at lycidas2 at earthlink.net wrote:

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> 
> "calbert at hslboxmaster.com" wrote:
>> "You can't take
>> the energy out. You can't take the terrorists out."
>> 
>> Here again we must distinguish between the UN and US. I don't see the UN
>> having any axe at all in the "energy" debate, at least with respect to Iraq.
> 
> I say the oil is a bigger ax for the UN than the USA. The USA wants
> Saddam out. 
> Most of the rest of the UN could care less about Saddam and his weapons,
> but they care about the oil. The USA doesn't care about the oil.

The USA has vast oil reserves. They are strategically important. You can
power a hybrid Corolla on hydrogen, but not an F-16. It's cheaper in the
long run to buy, or take, oil from assholes in the ME than to deplete our
own reserves. If we run low, we HAVE to go to them. That is not an
acceptable situation. The USA does care about oil. Look at our P and VP.