Posted on 08/20/2002 8:40:01 AM PDT by mikenola
UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 19 -- U.S. oil companies have dramatically slashed imports of Iraqi oil over the past five months, contributing to a steep decline in Baghdad's oil exports and cutting into President Saddam Hussein's ability to siphon money from the U.N.-supervised oil-for-food program, according to U.S. and U.N. officials.
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This is something I was discussing with a freind; we were making bets on when the price of gas would drop at the pump. He feels that it will only go up if we attack Iraq; my bet is two weeks after we attack, the pump price plummets.
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