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>This is about oil. Mark my words, after this is all over, and Saddam is gone, new oil contracts will be negotiated.
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>One of the first, and biggest, oil contracts will go to Halliburton (ex-Cheney's place of business). Want to bet? {g}

I will take that bet. The first contracts (gas/oil) will go to the Russians and French as they have their foot farther into the door now than the US has. If you think it was oil and nothing else, then why did we stop in 1991? Why not invade the whole country and take the oil?