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Re: What about the first?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 19 Feb 2003 00:24:42 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> A straw man argument is setting up an easy but inaccurately depicted target
> that you can knock down. "America is wasting the oil it gets from Saddam,
> so it must go to war with him." If it was getting it already, why would it
> need to go to war? Is the oil really going to America? No.
Even though I can easily agree with you on that (oil for US consumption
which is not from the GoM or Alaska comes primarily either from Venezuela or
West African countries), I think I must point out one does not need to *use*
the oil to benefit from it. We both know that the majority of the companies
who exploit the oil in the Arabian Region are american-controlled, and that
they generate a lot of profit from the drilling activity...
So yes, you are right in what you said *as you said it*. Just please don't
claim in the future that the oil from the Persian Gulf does not benefit the
US in any way - you haven't *said it*, but it can be implied from your
passionate rufuse of iraqui oil consumption by the US. Or am I 100% wrong? :-)
Pedro
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| (...) "I take it then, that Canadians aren't buying SUVs?" If you are going to castigate Americans for something that Canadians are doing (wasting oil through self-indulgence), you aren't going to garner a lot of respect for whatever point you are (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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