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| Russia to ’lose out on Iraqi oil’ |
| 2003-03-28 |
| Russia can forget about its oil interests in Iraq, Washington and London having decided to cut Moscow out of any postwar arrangements in restructuring Iraq's resources, the head of Russian state-run oil firm Zarubezhneft said in an interview yesterday. "We're clearly going to have to cut our losses on anything we have there and anything we could have had," the company's general manager Nikolai Tokarev told the daily Vremya Novostei. They are finally getting the picture, or are they? "The Americans haven't gone into this war intending to share with anyone. It's a war trophy," he said. Trust me, Nikolai, if you'll just agree to play by the rules, we'll let you play too. "We were on to some huge deposits, irrigation projects, a whole lot of things apart from the oil sector," he said. "were" being the operative word...time to face the future instead of the past. |
| Posted by:becky |
| #4 "... The Americans haven't gone into this war intending to share with anyone." We learned how to share in primary school. There's a give and take though, taught in the Chicken Little story - if you share in the responsibility and work, then you share in the product of that responsibility and work. Hinder or undercut that work, and your losses will be cut for you, and deeply. (To mix and garble metaphors.) |
| Posted by: Tadderly 2003-03-28 13:54:17 |
| #3 As we continue to find banned weapons supplied by Russia to Iraq, we may also want to cut our losses by stopping all other funding to Russia, whether it's 'foreign aid' or 'investment', or just plain graft. Russia has proven it's still our enemy, not someone who is interested in being a partner. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-03-28 12:07:23 |
| #2 So much for the Oil-for-GPS-Jammers deal. |
| Posted by: Dar Steckelberg 2003-03-28 11:40:07 |
| #1 I consider this to be a very good sign! IMHO, that they are acknowledging their losses shows that this is a done deal. Hope they are smart enough to figure out they can still be "with us" instead of "against us", while still coming out waaaay ahead of where they would have been with Sadaam. That concept of "compound interest", it's magic, I tell you! MAGIC! |
| Posted by: becky 2003-03-28 11:30:31 |