<HTML>In a message dated 11/15/02 12:13:12 PM Pacific Standard Time, seamus2001@attbi.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">So controlling Iraqi oil revenues, at least temporarily, would be a stopgap measure until they come up with some longer term approach to capital flows from the region while giving the Saudi's some space to fix their domestic economy while keeping the princely protection rackets in power. Just a guess. Ian </BLOCKQUOTE> How do you square "keeping the princely protection rackets in power" with some of the most rabidly regime-changing Bushies' sense of triumphalism about war in Iraq possibly changing regimes all over the Middle East???? DoreneC</HTML>