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Power Femme
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Cinnamon spiced, caramel colored, power-femme
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Married to a wonderful horse girl
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Lat: 45.60 Lon: -122.60
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Originally Posted by Toughy
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I can't buy it either, Toughy. Remember, at the time that the Vietnam war was going on the United States was in the Top 10 producers of oil in the world. We had large fields in California, Texas and Pennsylvania. I believe--if memory serves--that until just about the end of the Vietnam war we were a net *exporter* of oil. So I can't see any reason why we would go to war in Vietnam over oil. It would be akin to Saudi Arabia, the number one exporter of oil, going to war against Denmark over oil. Is that something that Saudi Arabia was likely to do? No. I'm not even sure that the French knew that there was oil off the coast of Vietnam--although I might be mistaken there.
Cheers
Aj
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