----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Weiss" <anweiss AT optonline D.OT net>
To: <profox@leafe.com>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 12:22 PM
Subject: RE: [OT] : French Products and Companies to Boycott
> <<Maybe it was the lame-assed, bogus "reasons" that the U.S.
administration
> presented to the U.N. Security Council that was the genesis of France's
> threatened veto.<<
>
> Maybe it was the French oil contracts with Saddam Hussein. A war puts
those
> in jeopardy.
So it is about oil! Bush's oily buddies don't want the French to get
control. <g>
By the by, did you know that the real profit in oil is NOT in pulling it out
of the ground but rather in the processing and wholesaleing of it. The oil
producers and the gas stations don't make sh*t compared to the middle men
and contractors like Halliburton.
>
> <Nor, it seems, were the arguments and
> bribery enough to get Turkey's full cooperation.<<
>
> Turkey has designs on annexing the Kurdish territories (including the
> northern Iraqi oil fields). They couldn't very well do that if they were
a
> willing partner in the coalition.
>
> Each to his own special interests.
Destabalizing the region. What a brilliant idea! Damn, why didn't left
think of that?
>
> Andy
>
>
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