ABOUT OIL

• At 10:37am on 23rd Mar 2011, Ad wrote:
  ABOUT OIL
  
  Fax off 606 said: "Put simply- this is about oil.
  
  Libya has it, the west wants it- hence the get Gaddafi at all costs"
  
  We have been buying oil from Libya since I don't know when. If there is oil easily obtainable then we'll buy it and the country concerned will sell it. Saddam Hussein swopped it for medical supplies (and there was corruption in all that). We buy oil from every corrupt dictatorship that wants to sell it. It won't stop whether Gadaffi goes or stays. He has oil to sell? We'll buy it. Libyan oil by the way is very good quality, like Brent oil I gather.
  
  I just don't get the 'it's all about oil' brigade. It really makes no difference who's in charge of the oil -producing nation. Agreements will be reached. We aren't fighting Gadaffi because we want to grab his oil: we've already got it.
  
  (Though obviously, supplies are being held up by the fighting and damage in Libya).
  
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• 86. At 10:47am on 23rd Mar 2011, powermeerkat wrote:
  Muammar G/Q/K: "Long live Islam everywhere. All Islamic armies must take part in the battle, all free [people] must take party in the battle... We will be victorious in the end" .
  
  
  
  
  Jihad, anyone?
  
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• 87. At 10:55am on 23rd Mar 2011, ZimbabweanGunner1 wrote:
  As a Zimbabwean, living in Zimbabwe, but well travelled, it is clear to us all, that, this issue is abt removing Gaddaffi and putting a puppet in. In my country, there are abt 13million people, about 1.3million voted in the last Presidential elections, which were hotly disputed. The whole world has shouted at the top of their voices, to get Mugabe out, so that their Puppet Tsvangirayi can come into power.Surprisingly
  -A few whites, less than 20 000 controlled all the prime farming land, and more than 12 million blacks had nothing, and the WEST was happy to have this continue, for as long as it kept the money rolling in.
  -When he[Mugabe] granted the West deals, and they bribed him, putting money into his offshore accounts, he was a good guy
  -at the same time , he killed abt 20 000 of our people[1984-1987], but he got all doctorates from the Universities in the US/UK etc, they turned a blind eye to his atrocities for as long as they were getting the good deals and the money
  -When a few whites were killed in the chaotic land reform programme, all hell broke loose and he was a 'Dictator', to be deposed from power etc
  -Now a brainless opposition leader has been supported by the West, but has not been able to take the presidency from Mugabe,brainless brainless
  -so called Targeted sanctions have been imposed on Mugabe, which have pretty much crippled the economy[over and above his bad policies], so the near 12 million who did not vote, are suffering badly, for leaders' sins, or the West's desire for change/
  -The Libyan Crisis is clearly an issue of resources, how the West can get a leader they can control into the seat, and get the reconstructions contracts, mortgaged on the oil, and so bring Libya to its knees and the West flying again.
  -Cameron's leadership will be tainted by this.
  -Sadly, the world is still full of Hitlers, who have no regard for civilians, for i ask, how many civilians have been killed in Afghanistan, Iraqi and now Libya, and yet the world watches and says, game on, for as long as it does not happen on our doorsteps.