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Offline Thrawn

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« Reply #15 on: October 22, 2002, 11:52:20 AM »
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Its a bigger factor for France not wanting in. Total Petrolium is one of the big winners of an Iraq oil contract....but then you knew that :)

BTW same deal for russia..


Nope, didn't know that.  But now I do, thanks.

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« Reply #16 on: October 22, 2002, 12:23:59 PM »
Nobody had problems about going to war to secure strategic patroleum reserves in arabia for the free world in WWII, why is it such a moral dilema now ? Like gibralter or panama It is of extreme strategic importance .
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« Reply #17 on: October 22, 2002, 12:39:44 PM »
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Nobody had problems about going to war to secure strategic patroleum reserves in arabia for the free world in WWII, why is it such a moral dilema now ? Like gibralter or panama It is of extreme strategic importance .
 



Easy answer:


P-O-L-I-T-I-C-S

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« Reply #18 on: October 22, 2002, 01:15:07 PM »
11345 US Marines battle 710 Iraqs

who wins?

using an open number 4, write down the numbers & flip them over for the answer :)
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« Reply #19 on: October 22, 2002, 02:03:36 PM »

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« Reply #20 on: October 22, 2002, 02:12:08 PM »
"who wins?"

Shell... but that leaves out several other gas companies.. why do they lose? Not enuff Iraqis left to spell 'em out? :)
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« Reply #21 on: October 22, 2002, 02:18:18 PM »
I don't know.  I think that Bush's poor grasp on foreign policy is beginning to show again (pre 9/11).  It's kinda looks like he's being played by everyone.  Did China put N. Korea up to annoucing their nuclear program?  I don't see why they would otherwise.  

I don't think some countries are sick of his unilateral policies and are starting to shut him down, internationally speaking.

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« Reply #22 on: October 22, 2002, 03:18:23 PM »
Chimpy finally figured out banannas don't come from Iraq.

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« Reply #23 on: October 22, 2002, 03:25:23 PM »
Man you are the most ridiculous person on this board lol.


I am surprised you even bother posting.

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« Reply #24 on: October 22, 2002, 04:02:40 PM »
N Korea 'announced' as a result of being confronted with evidence of it, it's not like they just decided to reveal their weapons program.

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« Reply #25 on: October 22, 2002, 04:13:59 PM »
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N Korea 'announced' as a result of being confronted with evidence of it, it's not like they just decided to reveal their weapons program.


exactly:
"After a U.S. delegation confronted North Korea with evidence of a uranium-based program in that country with enough plutonium for at least two nuclear weapons, North Korea admitted to a top U.S. diplomat two weeks ago that it has had a secret nuclear weapons program.

Because of the admission, the White House said Sunday it considers the 1994 Agreed Framework effectively dead. The agreement called for the United States to provide energy assistance to North Korea in exchange for Pyongyang's promise to stop seeking to develop nuclear weapons. "

http://www.armscontrol.org/documents/af.asp

http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/pressrelease.html

"The 1994 Agreed Framework (AF) between the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has become the centerpiece of recent US efforts to reduce the threat of conflict on the Korean peninsula. Under the AF, the US and its allies (mainly South Korea) will provide the DPRK with two large nuclear-power reactors and other benefits such as annual shipments of fuel oil for the generation of electricity until the nuclear-power reactors being built for that purpose are able to do so. In exchange the DPRK will declare how much nuclear weapon-usable material it has produced; identify, freeze, and eventually dismantle specified facilities for producing this material; and remain a party to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and allow the implementation of its safeguards agreement."

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