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On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Tim de Mello wrote: > There is no "perhaps" here. Iraqi oil will be used to finance the US led > illegal invasion of Iraq. And the US will pressure Kuwait to cough up a few > billion for "protection money". > > In 1991, the Saudis, who foolishly joined the alliance were presented with a > bill of approx. $42 billion. To say they were surprised would be putting it > mildly. Guess why they have not joined the alliance this time. The balance > of the money for that war came from Kuwait - "because they invited the US > in". Nice for the US who were able to test out their latest weapons of mass > destruction against a third world people at little or no cost to themselves. > > The US has to recover about $80 billion to cover the cost of this invasion. > Other than Kuwait, the only other source of revenue will be Iraqi oil. > ...and the Iraqi funds in the US, which were recently unfrozen and siezed. I hear that the US is trying to force Switzerland to doing the same, but so far the Swiss have resisted. -- Tariq Siddiqui [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************************* Rockets Lover! Laker Hater !!! ******************************************************************************* _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.goanet.org/mailman/listinfo/goanet