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To: Carry_Okie; MeekOneGOP; PhilDragoo; devolve; JohnHuang2; Mia T; Boazo; Grampa Dave; dennisw; ...
"Carter was Rockefeller's butt boy. You can bet your last dime that creating turmoil in the Middle East was a strategic objective meant to induce higher oil prices. Those higher prices in turn funded the Russian military machine."

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Whew! Talk about a condensed version of USSR politics.

Thoughts? (Especially on higher oil prices pumping up Ivan's AK47 output.)

46 posted on 11/29/2004 6:46:09 AM PST by Happy2BMe (It's not quite time to rest - John Kerry is still out there (and so is Hillary))
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To: Happy2BMe
Reagan then decontrolled oil prices and deregulated access to oil production. Oil prices spiked and then fell, and with them fell the Soviet Union.

See tagline.

49 posted on 11/29/2004 7:27:45 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Privatizing environmental regulation is critical to national survival.)
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