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> My fear is that the US is planning to bomb the oil facilities > in Iraq to set the economy back another 20 years. Hi Philippa, I think that bombing Iraq's oil facilities is unlikely. The US is currently the largest consumer of Iraqi oil sold under `oil for food'. Oil is a commodity, so the US could bid suppliers away from other countries if it destroyed Iraqi facilities but this would certainly bid up prices and would force reconfiguration of US refineries that have been set up to refine Iraqi oil. Both of these steps are expensive. It would also bring a world of hostility towards the US, undoing years of effort to convince people that Iraqi suffering was not a consequence of US policies. Best, Colin Rowat work | Room 406, Department of Economics | The University of Birmingham | Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK | (+44/0) 121 414 3754 | (+44/0) 121 414 7377 (fax) | c.rowat@bham.ac.uk personal | (+44/0) 7768 056 984 (mobile) | (+44/0) 7092 378 517 (fax) | (707) 221 3672 (US fax) | colinrowat@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk CASI's website - www.casi.org.uk - includes an archive of all postings.