Iraq's oil

DoreneFC at aol.com DoreneFC at aol.com
Fri Oct 11 11:16:55 PDT 2002


In a message dated 10/11/02 10:29:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time, uvj at vsnl.com writes:


> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > Of course we learn in this morning's NY Times that Bush plans to make
> > Gen Tommy Franks the king of Iraq, on the model of MacArthur running
> > Japan after WW II. I'm guessing Gen Franks wouldn't be offering too
> > many contracts to French oil companies.
>
> King of Iraq? Some foreign policy analysts here are wondering if Iraq would
> survive as a single unified entity. Would Kurds accept autonomy with the
> framework of Iraqi state?
>
> Ulhas
>

One of the wackier scenarios I have seen was on the Russian nightly news program Vremya: Iraq pasted together with Jordan and ruled by King Abdullah. I have not seen that scenario anywhere else but does it play better in the Arab street than King Tommy???

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