[CLUE-Talk] Sure its 'Not About Oil' was: Why Iraq? Why now?

[Randy Arabie]

On Sunday,  2 February 2003 at 22:19:42 -0700, Jed S. Baer <thag at frii.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 21:03:03 -0700
> Jeffery Cann <fabian at jefferycann.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday 01 February 2003 12:43 am, Matt Gushee wrote:
> > >
> > > If these projections are indeed well-known and believed in the oil
> > > industry, then we can reasonably guess that they are very much on Dick
> > > Cheney's mind. So here's a hypothesis:
> > >
> > >   Cheney and his war faction believe they are doing us all a favor by
> > >   going out and grabbing a share of the remaining oil before the shit
> > >   hits the fan.
> > 
> > Wow!  Matt you are indeed perceptive and it would seem that you share an
> > opinion / hypothesis as others.  In this week's Business Week (10
> > February 2003), the 'It's Not "All About Oil", but has some interesting
> > facts regarding Iraqi oil reserves
> > 
> > This story is available on-line, but only if you're a BW subscriber. 
> > Posting full-text by subscribers is specifically excluded from the
> > reader agreement (thanks, DMCA!)  I have included a few quotes from the
> > article:
> > 
> > http://www.businessweek.com/print/premium/content/03_06/b3819055.htm?m
> > 
> > My opinion:  It's about oil.  Anyone who believes it's not all about oil
> > is naive.
> 
> I like Bill Whittle's article:
> 
> http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000027.html

Hey Jed,

Thanks for that link.  IMO, that's a really good essay.  I found Point
#1 very strong.  This is, in fact, another Chapter in the Gulf War.  It
is not an unprovoked, pre-emtive strike, as some would like to believe.
-- 
Allons Rouler!
        
Randy
http://www.arabie.org/
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