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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] http://www.nypost.com/seven/02242003/postopinion/opedcolumnists/31041.htm [QUOTE]It is remarkable how Iraq's huge oil reserves - second largest in the world - prove two key points. First, just how desperately Saddam clings to his nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs. His refusal to scrap them 12 years ago, as he pledged, cost Iraq more than $100 billion in lost oil revenue, perhaps as much as $200 billion. That's a lot to forgo for a WMD arsenal. But it's WMD that Saddam values most. No price his people pay is too high for his personal ambitions. Second, Iraq's having gobs of oil shows how principled America and England are. For unlike the French and Russians, our leaders - both Republican and Democratic, Labour and Conservative - have willingly sacrificed acquiring cheaper oil to force Saddam's scrapping his WMD arsenal.We had hope that this would be done through UN sanctions and inspection teams. It was a nice try, but that effort obviously hasn't worked. So force must now be used. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE]One last point on "blood for oil." Iraq's having substantial reserves - and the whole Middle East holding much of the world's oil supply - is a legitimate factor in our concerns in the region. Even the recent Noble Peace Prize winner, President Jimmy Carter, understood the importance of oil to the development world when president. In 1979, after the Soviets brutally invaded Afghanistan, President Jimmy Carter asserted the Carter Doctrine, which offered U.S. protection of Gulf states precisely because of their abundant oil. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE]To turn the protestors on their head: President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair don't act on the basis of "blood for oil." It's Saddam who's been on a clear path of "oil for blood." That now must end. [/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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