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| Dr. Convection |
 Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 1:51 pm |
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U.S. win ends dependence on Saudis
Global Television
Wednesday, April 09, 2003
It may take several more weeks to quell every community, every
neighbourhood, every pocket of resistance. But the campaign for Iraq is
substantially over.
The brutal regime of Saddam Hussein has been changed.
Even if no conclusive link is found between al-Qaeda and Saddam, the success
of the Anglo-American coalition is an important win in the war on terrorism.
Iraq's wealthy southern neighbour, Saudi Arabia, is the source of much of
the money that funds international terrorism and the home of the pernicious
form of fundamentalist Islam that breeds hatred against the West.
Fifteen of the 19 September 11th terrorists, and Osama bin Laden himself,
were Saudis.
While watching the income of their subjects fall by nearly two-thirds in the
past two decades, Saudi princes have used their vast oil wealth to build
fundamentalist mosques, schools and recruiting centres worldwide, including
here in Canada.
They have paid the salaries of radical religious leaders at these
institutions, so those leaders could preach jihad against the West.
Western nations have tolerated this because they needed Saudi oil and access
to Saudi military bases.
But Iraq has the second-largest oil reserves in the world, after only Saudi
Arabia.
And it has lots of space for air, sea and army bases.
With Iraq's liberation, the Americans in particular can end their dependence
on Saudi petroleum and military installations, cut the flow of billions into
the Saudi kingdom and thereby choke off one of terrorism's principal
sponsors.
I'm Lorne Gunter of the Edmonton Journal and that's The Last Word. |
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| Eric Swanson |
| Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 2:43 pm |
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In article <Hq9DpK.BEv@campus-news-reading.utoronto.ca>, Convection@convection.net says...
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From:
http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=c28579e4-116c-4af0-96b2-ecba909c8
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U.S. win ends dependence on Saudis
Global Television
Wednesday, April 09, 2003
It may take several more weeks to quell every community, every
neighbourhood, every pocket of resistance. But the campaign for Iraq is
substantially over.
[cut]
I'm Lorne Gunter of the Edmonton Journal and that's The Last Word.
Really? Fast Forward to today:
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Sun, Dec 21, 2003
Reuters
U.S. Swoop Nets More Iraqis as Saboteurs Hit Oil
By Nadim Ladki
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops intensified a crackdown on anti-American
guerrillas across volatile central Iraq (news - web sites) on Sunday as
saboteurs attacked fuel tanks and a pipeline, exacerbating an already acute
gasoline shortage.
Saboteurs, who have wreaked havoc on U.S. efforts to restore the country's
devastated infrastructure after Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s fall, set
the fuel storage tanks ablaze in Baghdad and ruptured the pipeline feeding oil
products to refineries in the capital.
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An explosion ignited fuel tanks in the Ur district of Baghdad in a pre-dawn
attack, witnesses said. No casualties were reported but hundreds of thousands
of liters of fuel were burned.
An Iraqi Oil Ministry official said on Sunday a pipeline carrying oil products
to a refinery in Baghdad was attacked on Friday in al-Mashahdah, some 32 km (20
miles) north of Baghdad.
The sabotage of oil products facilities comes at the height of a gasoline
shortage crisis in the oil-rich country. Damaged pipelines and rundown
refineries alongside smuggling have left authorities struggling to satisfy
local fuel demands and Iraqis waiting in queues for hours to fill up their
cars with petrol. ...........
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Eric Swanson --- E-mail address: e_swanson(at)skybest.com 
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| Vendicar Decarian |
| Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 5:24 pm |
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"Dr. Convection" <Convection@convection.net> wrote in message
news:Hq9DpK.BEv@campus-news-reading.utoronto.ca...
Quote: Global Television
Wednesday, April 09, 2003
It may take several more weeks to quell every community, every
neighbourhood, every pocket of resistance. But the campaign for Iraq is
substantially over.
Bahahahahah... A third rate commentator from a forth rate Canadian TV
network.
Bahahahahahah...... |
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| BretCahill |
| Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 9:05 pm |
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Hey, Dr. Connection is finally coming
clean with the REAL reason for the war:
To steal oil.
Bret Cahill
All conservatism is based on censorship of
economic information.
-- Bret Cahill |
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| Vendicar Decarian |
| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 5:50 am |
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"BretCahill" <bretcahill@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20031221210514.23008.00001035@mb-m27.aol.com...
Quote: Hey, Dr. Connection is finally coming
clean with the REAL reason for the war:
To steal oil.
Now haven't the NeoCon Conners been whining for years that Oil would never
run out and that there was sufficient oil for all time?
If so, why do they embark on a plan to steal oil through acts of mass
murder? |
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