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We buy 8 percent of Iraqi oil. The U.S. is buying -- the latest statistic to my knowledge -- 56 percent of Iraqi oil.
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Compare the populations.
France: 61.1m (2002)
USA: 284,796,887 (2001)
I'm not sure waht the guy meant by "we buy 8 percent of Iraq oil"... does he mean 8% of the TOTAL oil they buy annually comes from Iraq? Or they buy 8% of the total oil that IRAQ EXPORTS? Either way... compare the popultations.
France has damn near as much interest in that oil as we do per capita & I'm sure Germany isn't that far off either
Irrergardless of the war being about oil or not, that guy is totally making light of their interests in Iraqi oil. They use/buy 8% because that is what they
need. And it's not free.