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On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 12:30:38 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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Saddam never threatened the US and Iran is not threatening the US. You
do the math. Who are they threatening?

Our oil interests in the region. Do the math.

"Oil" is a red herring for knee jerkers.
The oil companies would have been more than happy to business with
Saddam and he was a willing seller.
If we were not killing people in the middle east oil would be 30 bucks
a barrel.

But Saddam wasn't really a willing seller and he had a lot of baggage. The
great game is what was/is going on.

Actually, it's the instability that causes high prices... mostly. Complain
to OPEC for the rest. They can't seem to get it together very often.