Re: Oil price to rocket to $262 a barrel ?

On 30 Jan 2006 08:51:51 -0800, "Crowley" <crowleyalastair@xxxxxxxxxxx>

typed:
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>abelard wrote:
>> On 30 Jan 2006 04:21:54 -0800, "Crowley" <crowleyalastair@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> typed:
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>> >
>> >Mel Rowing wrote:
>> >> Crowley wrote:
>> >> > Afghanistan and Iraq are still 'going on' IN CASE YOU HADN'T NOTICED.
>> >>
>> >> Rubbish
>> >>
>> >> You don't regard counter insurgencies as indicative of territorial
>> >> control do you?
>> >>
>> >> You might just as well say that the French controlled France between
>> >> 1940 and 1944.
>> >>
>> >> In both of the above cases the original governments have been deposed
>> >> and their armed forces emphatically defeated. In both cases coalition
>> >> troops remain based upon these territories' soil where they will remain
>> >> until a time decided by their governments not the insurgents.
>> >>
>> >> The insurgencies do not have anywhere near the necessary military
>> >> capability to expel them.
>> >
>
>> >Perhaps not but if you're suggesting that US/UK troops control Iraq
>>
>> you don't grasp the meaning of the word 'control'
>> there are no such absolutes...
>
>Do you grasp the meaning of the phrase 'out of control'

you obviously did not understand...
therefore rest binned unread.

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