03-31-2003, 11:59 PM
The trade sanctions that completely curtailed normal Iraqi oil commerce was reduced, at the behest of the UN with full American agreement, to ensure that the embargo, imposed 6 August 1990, would not cause inordinate suffering in the population. Of course, Saddam and his government has done what it can to finesse that, with the result being that this agreed lessening of the embargo has not necessarily been much help.
I am amazed at how little most people know about the details on this one.
Do your homework. Check Security Council Resolutions of 1990, and then follow the bouncing ball to the post conflict, 1991, decisions by the UN to lessen the impact of the embargo on the average Iraqi trying to get a loaf of bread.
Iraqi 'oil' embargo hurting the US? Hardly, and please, dont make me laugh, all of the other Arabs pump enough oil to keep the international marked working. All small perturbations do is make the Norwegians, Nigerians, Venezuelans, and Saudis a bit richer by bumping the spot prices up a bit on the internaitonal oil market.
You want to see an oil embargo? One that really works? Go back to 1973, and look at the embargo, led IMO by Saudi Arabia, others will disagree, and how OPEC put a serious hurt on US economy.
That, sir, was an embargo with teeth in it.
I am amazed at how little most people know about the details on this one.
Do your homework. Check Security Council Resolutions of 1990, and then follow the bouncing ball to the post conflict, 1991, decisions by the UN to lessen the impact of the embargo on the average Iraqi trying to get a loaf of bread.
Iraqi 'oil' embargo hurting the US? Hardly, and please, dont make me laugh, all of the other Arabs pump enough oil to keep the international marked working. All small perturbations do is make the Norwegians, Nigerians, Venezuelans, and Saudis a bit richer by bumping the spot prices up a bit on the internaitonal oil market.
You want to see an oil embargo? One that really works? Go back to 1973, and look at the embargo, led IMO by Saudi Arabia, others will disagree, and how OPEC put a serious hurt on US economy.
That, sir, was an embargo with teeth in it.
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete