02-23-2003, 07:02 AM
Actually I'm not sure AK404 was attempting to debate anything. Hence, his post, without the nutty huge ( ).
Maybe I'm being idealistic, but I don't think he said it was about oil. He just said people are going to be interested in the oil afterwards. Now, seriously, people are interested in the oil. I know I would be.
As far as I know (and I'm stressing this because my reading is a few monthes out of date), Iraq oil is sold right now through the UN*. The deals with France and Russia do not actually pump oil, they can not until the sanctions fall. So I would assume given deals do exist but don't pump oil except to the UN, that if the Iraqis were willing to deal with American companies such deals would exist all the same.
Which has nothing to do with the rest of the American populace, by the way. Oil companies are definitely not a group of people I would say are of the same moral fibre as the rest of America.
Either way our side of the argument seems to be me being idealistic about AK404's implications.
*=Some people have said the UN wishes to sustain the inspections because it is in their fiancial interests to do so. Scary thought, eh.
Quote:While the planned actions of the US may not be about oil, when the smoke clears, I've little doubt that the oil fields are going to be the first things those little oil-mongers will be divvying up amongst themselves.
Maybe I'm being idealistic, but I don't think he said it was about oil. He just said people are going to be interested in the oil afterwards. Now, seriously, people are interested in the oil. I know I would be.
Quote:U.S. enforcing sanctions against Iraq, or Iraq not wanting to do business with the U.S.?
As far as I know (and I'm stressing this because my reading is a few monthes out of date), Iraq oil is sold right now through the UN*. The deals with France and Russia do not actually pump oil, they can not until the sanctions fall. So I would assume given deals do exist but don't pump oil except to the UN, that if the Iraqis were willing to deal with American companies such deals would exist all the same.
Which has nothing to do with the rest of the American populace, by the way. Oil companies are definitely not a group of people I would say are of the same moral fibre as the rest of America.
Either way our side of the argument seems to be me being idealistic about AK404's implications.
*=Some people have said the UN wishes to sustain the inspections because it is in their fiancial interests to do so. Scary thought, eh.