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To: mindprism.com
Please explain the legal theory behind our 'rights to' the oil of a foreign country.

We don't have a right to take another nation's oil, but we and another sovereign nation (like Kuwait, as a completely random example) do have a right to trade oil, dollars, widgets, or whatever, without a bullying neighbor invading, taking all of the commodities, and trying to harm us by denying us something we need by eliminating free trade.

102 posted on 08/19/2002 1:46:34 PM PDT by nravoter
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To: nravoter
without a bullying neighbor invading, taking all of the commodities, and trying to harm us by denying us something we need by eliminating free trade.

Free trade? Free markets? Is that what we believe in... or - do we believe in sending our soldiers to defend oil monopolies

How 'humane' and noble to have advocates calling for "us" to "administer Saudi Arabia's oil fields for the common good of the people of the region"

"Administer", as in "preserving the present Aramco monopoly".

Predictably, this is not part of the dialog due to control of the media.

Without a free press democracy devolves into a Punch & Judy show.

116 posted on 08/19/2002 2:38:23 PM PDT by mindprism.com
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To: nravoter
Please explain the legal theory behind our 'rights to' the oil of a foreign country.

Actually, in this case, I believe that any country that can be linked, either through direct action, or through financial means to terrorist attacks on our country (or to Israel for that matter) can loose their oil for "reparations". This is definately a case where I support reparations. First we take enough oil to pay for the rebuilding of the twin tower, then enough to pay for rebuilding the destroyed portion of the Pentagon, then we take enough to pay each family who lost loved ones in the attack 10 Million dollars. Then we pay the insurance companies back for the losses they sustained (and we the premium payers are footing the bill for), then we take enough to completely fill our strategic oil reserves, then we take enough to Pay the airilines for their direct financial losses from the crashed planes, then we take enough oil to supply our troops equipment for the next 10 years. When we have all the oil that we have coming to us, we then turn the oil fields over to Israel who then uses the income derrived from the oil to build up a truly incredible military of their own (not that they don't already have a good military), and to pay for similar damages that they have incurred due to the Islamist/Pali terrorism.

129 posted on 08/19/2002 3:29:12 PM PDT by TheBattman
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