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domwild
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Posted: 09:13am 28 Jun 2011

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Friends,

Am putting to you a historical question as there has always been talk of the wars for oil. I suspect that the reason for the oil wars is easily explained:

A lot of the present and past dictators simply nationalized the oil fields and all the refineries and made themselves very popular in the process. I believe it was a chap called Mossadeq in Iran, was it Saddam in Iraq? Chavez in Venezuela did it too. It was Gaddafi in Libya. Am I historically correct?

We are talking here of billions of dollars, which the oil companies invested there and lost. I am sure diplomatic efforts were first made for compensation, but IMHO such a debt stays on the books and by hook or by crook is recovered at some stage. I am not a friend of the oil companies and also do not think wars are justified for any reason, so let's have no flames. It perhaps explains the war in Iraq to some degree as too many analysts know of no weapons of mass destruction to be there anyway.

Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal; there goes another lot of invested money leading to the brief war there with British and French troops. Made him popular no doubt. Why send troops in if there was no other reason than to recoup stolen goods?

Taxation as a means of achieving prosperity is like a man standing inside a bucket trying to lift himself up.

Winston Churchill

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Posted: 01:46pm 28 Jun 2011

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Hi Dom

Down through history wars have been fought for the riches of the world, in our century nothing has changed, but in the future it may be for food or water control and marketing, as these are the truly important things to mankind, land and recourse issues along with the true bloody mindedness of empire builders has beset humankind with suffering and unfortunately nothing will change in the future, until there are to many cows in the paddock and nature will once again regulate the pesky inhabitants of the paddock.

In the mean time in between time ain't we got fun.

All the best

Bob

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