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Old January 2nd, 2004, 02:31 AM
devil
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Default How US helped Iraq build deadly arsenal

On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 23:00:23 +0000, Simon Elliott wrote:

devil writes
Military action for physical control of oil is just not the American way
of doing things. A large fraction of European opinion sees this as a (the
only sensible, seemingly?) rationale for a war, given that it otherwise
makes no sense at all. But I don't buy it.


What do you make of this?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3333995.stm

The United States considered using force to seize oilfields in the
Middle East during an oil embargo by Arab states in 1973, according to
British government documents just made public.


Right. If you don't let them buy, of course one has to look at plan B...

Seriously though, this was a much more critical situation, and they didn't
do it.