On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:40:16 -0800 (PST), Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > But, anyway, even if I think that those on the pro-torture side of the > aisle (see the Gonzalez confirmation or > http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2005/02/like_something_.html) > will acknowledge that we would have been much less likely to have gone > into Iraq if it weren't for its oil and its proximity to a lot more oil, > I don't think oil was high on the list of reasons we went in. Oil rich countries also have a bunch of dissatisfied unfulfilled youth who are willing to become terrorists. Poor despotic countries have better things to do than to export terrorism across the world. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/