i totally agree with you. i would take sadamm out myself it given the opp. and i wrote that editorial yesterday and actually took that line out before sending it off to kiro. sometime s they read my stuff on air sometimes they dont. because i thought that same thing. the iraqi people are very lucky to have that oil because i dont think we would be there without it and they wouldnt have been liberated otherwise. so i guess i think its about oil but that isnt all bad and the liberation of an extreemely oppressed people proves that. but what i would love to get people thinking about is how do you actually create an economic system where tho oil belongs to everyone without completely compromising capitalism and creating either corporationisn (i think i just made that up) or socialism. i know what they mean by the statement- that they arnt here to take the oil from them. but we armed the hell out of sadamm so that he could stand up to the soviets and not become a socalist counrty and wouldnt it be ironic if we create a socialist country out of iraq? cuz the only other option i have come up with is to keep the oil in the privitized hands of the rich that became rich from running the regime that is toppled.(this same problem after WW2 lead to a much more socialistic europe today) So no matter what , we will have to begin with systematic redistributuion of wealth.(the present looting seems to be a beginning of this redistributiuon of wealth. the other way would be for the US to completely control the oil so that we could get a maximum return for it and then pass out royalty checks to the citizens or use the funds for reconstruction. that sounds like an indian reservation. no matter what we felt about the right or wrong of the war, I think this could be a scary perdicament to talk ourselves out of and we may have to watch Iraq enjoy medicine at a fraction of our prices and all kinds of right that we will not have. it will be interesting