US offers India oil, $2.5-b to support Iraq war

Marc Clifton

Can you say "bribery"??? Now we have to buy our allies, huh? Well, I suppose this is more overt than the way we've bought them in the past. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
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David Wulff

Marc Clifton wrote: Now we have to buy our allies, huh? Oh come on, why do you think anybody has allies? It's for what they both get out of it, always has been and always will be so long as humans are involved.

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Marc Clifton

unsubstantiated, unattributed Why do you think that? Seems totally reasonable to me. Turkey is asking for billions in post-war aid. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
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Marc Clifton

human=Ferengi, huh? Not what's right, but what's profitable? Oh well, yet another blow to my already rock bottom opinion of politicians and most of the human race. It's sickening how much money is being spent on this war, as opposed to something that would really bring prosperity to this country. As tax time approaches (April 15th), I get more and more angry about the situation. But by then, WWIII will probably have started and hopefully 90% of the human race will be wiped off the planet. I can only hope. (oh yes, that was sarcasm) Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
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Nish Nishant

Rob Graham wrote: Did you make this up just to troll for flames? I dont think so, but I myself am puzzled as to why he didn't give us a link to the original article :~ Nish

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Rob Graham

Reasonable or unreasonable, there are no links,and no source named other than "some newspaper". As worthless as most of the "news" on television with the "unnamed sources". Not worth getting into an argument over, but likely to show up in some later post as "fact". It could be fact, or it could be pure fictional propaganda... Some ideas are so stupid that only an intellectual could have thought of them - George Orwell

David Wulff

Marc Clifton wrote: human=Ferengi, huh? Not what's right, but what's profitable? Star Trek was a generation ahead of it's time. :((

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Rohit Sinha

I suspect he forgot to post the link. Normally he does. I think this is the first time he has posted something which he didn't back up with links. From what I know about him he's not a troll or looking for flame wars. And as for the content of the post, I'm not surprised. All the countries do this all the time I think. How else are pacts formed? People may come together to fight for a good cause, but countries come together only for their own interest. If it is not in the interest of a particular country to do something, you need to make it so. This is how it works, nothing new IMO.
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Michael A Barnhart

With the one highlighted line of: It said oil remained a major lure, with Washington making clear that all countries clearly standing behind the United States would get a share in the proceeds of the war and removal of Saddam Hussein. tells me it is very biased if it comes from a paper or not. For the US to share the proceeds they would have to be colonizing the nation. Now many may have that view of the US and hence the comment. But the US does not view its actions in that light and so it would not have made the offer in those terms. "I will find a new sig someday."

Kant

Reasons I didn't the provide the URL are: 1. That site (from India) is very slow 2. It has 100+ flashing ads :mad: Follow live World Cup Cricket scores here[^]

Kant

http://headlines.sify.com/1669news1.html?headline=US~offers~hard~cash~for~support~on~Iraq[^] The only reason I don't give URL is only if that site is slow. I didn't get the exact URL. But the above one contains that story. If it took more than 1 minute on my broadband connection, what's the point in providing the URL. All I did copy and paste to save the time of dial-up users. Follow live World Cup Cricket scores here[^]

peterchen

Alliance: Together we stand, divided we fall Bribery: I give you $5 from each of my free citizen, and you agree with whatever I say Don't mix up things, new age is soooo 20th century.

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Kant

Rohit Sinha wrote: I suspect he forgot to post the link. Normally he does. I think this is the first time he has posted something which he didn't back up with links. From what I know about him he's not a troll or looking for flame wars. Thanks for backing me up. :rose: Follow live World Cup Cricket scores here[^]

Brit

I think that sounds rather shifty, but, in reference to this particular statement, "The United States has offered to give India the $2.5 billion owed to it by Iraq and assure its oil supply for unambiguous support of its war against Baghdad, a report said Saturday.": I wanted to point out that unless the US does this, India may attempt to prevent war simply to make sure they can get their $2.5 billion that they are owed. Hence, in this particular instance, the US is balancing the monetary incentive (i.e. making sure India doesn't have a monetary incentive to back Iraq). It's also not that different from the money games that Saddam has been playing -- giving big contracts to the countries that back him. Russian and French companies have done well financially because of the fact that their countries take softer approaches to Iraq. (About a year ago, Russia was pushing for an elimination of sanctions altogether.) ------------------------------------------ They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin In an encampment expecting daily attack from a powerful enemy, self-preservation is paramount to all law. - Thomas Jefferson