I knew all of that.
Aiding Turkey to indirectly take over the Kurdish region again is one of the
parts of Bush's destabalization policy that I find objectionable.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Weiss" <anweiss /AT/ optonline D.O.T net>
To: <profox@leafe.com>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 1:40 PM
Subject: RE: [OT] : French Products and Companies to Boycott
> <<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.<<
>
> Oh, I get it. So the French had no interest in their own lucrative oil
> contracts because they're not as profitable as some other contracts (which
> were mostly held by the Russians)? Makes perfect sense.
>
I didn't mean anything except that it's interesting that .....
> <<Destabalizing the region. What a brilliant idea! Damn, why didn't left
> think of that?<<
>
> I don't know who 'left' is but if you mean Turkey, they have thought of
> that. Are you aware of the threat of Turkish border incursions? You do
> know the Turks have long feared a Kurdish border state? Did you know that
> Iraq was occupied by Turkey before World War I (before they found oil
> there)? Do you know the Turks and the Kurds have a long history of
> animosity including a 20th century attempt by the Turks to annihilate the
> Kurds through genocide?
>
> As to why you didn't think of that, I couldn't say.
>
> Andy
>
>
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