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Re: The Balkanization of Iraq



On 8/27/05, Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If the US power elite were smart and above self-interest -- which, of
> course, they're not -- they would impose an "Alaskan solution": each
> Iraqi adult would receive a yearly share of the oil revenues. That
> would deal will all these intra-Iraqi fights over oil.

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Wasn't that idea actually floated in the early days of the current war?



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