Re: Cheney's Halliburton to Control Iraqi Oil?
"Timothy R. Butler" <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > > I guess the "ideal" solution would be to give each tax payer in Iraq > > after reorgnizing the government so many shares of the Iraqi Oil Company. > > That would be tough. > > If the country really is a democracy then keeping it nationalized > accomplishes that. No, not really. My described method would allow the citizens to sell their share(s) if they so wished. > Well you need to consider the ulterior motives of the pundits. Are these > Empire people, like CFR or one of their many think tanks, such as Heritage > Foundation, National Review, etc.? The purpose of these people is to > deceive and confuse, and it is best to take what they say for what it is: > propaganda to manipulate people to accept a pre-determined outcome. Can't remember where I got it from just now, but it was a liberal Canadian magazine, I think... anti-war, etc., etc. It was arguing that democracy wouldn't work in countries where the government can buy everyone off with oil wealth. Nationalized oil helps in this persuit. > More generally, how can you believe such total pundit crap ;-) ? Hehehe. -Tim - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks www.uninet.info ==================== <[email protected]> ==================== | Christian Portal: | Have you not learned great lessons | | www.faithtree.com | from those who braced themselves | | GNU/Linux News: | against you and disputed the | | www.ofb.biz | passage with you? --Walt Whitman | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+vbJSK37Cns9gJ0gRAlvvAJ91KatVPd+dFbUDaXvweiJhCoUWGQCfT3Ux lNwGaEhe4Bkv/KrJU3n8wtU= =KUHm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent OfB.biz: Open for Business, KDE or the author's employer.