>>and I wonder how many people Saddam would have killed this month were he still in the position to do so...
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>David;
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>Seems like we choose what events in the world have importance. I recall 20 years ago that the media reported three wars, which were being raged in different parts of the world. In fact there were 50 wars occurring during this same period. The other 47 were not important enough to be reported.
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>Today we have many people being killed in Africa. In fact many more people die in Africa than in Iraq. That seems to not be of great interest to the media or to a great many people.

Any significant quantity of oil at stake in those wars?