On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:22:25 +0100, Cardman
wrote:

Ah I knew it was somewhere, but have they really got enough salt mines
to store all that oil?

Evidently, you have no comprehension of the size of the United States.
See comparison in size below.

We in the UK have our own oil in the North Sea.

We in the US have considerable oil resources in the Gulf of Mexico,
Texas, Oklahoma, and Alaska.

Holy Simple History Batman. You do realize there's a lot more than this to
it. In fact it involves, you guessed it, OIL.

Naturally. Not long now before this evil stuff runs out. :-]

The earliest estimates (from the Greens and others) say 35 years from
now.

Ok, so it was a bad idea for Iraq to do that, but you have to wonder
how much Kuwaiti oil played a part. Then these days the U.S has
"freed" the oil in Iraq for the benefit of the people, but no sign of
those weapons of mass destruction yet.

Iraq is a huge country to search, nearly twice the size of your UK,and
the job isn't easy with radicals running around throwing grenades at
you.

USA: 9,629,091 sq.km.
Iraq: 437,000 sq. km.
UK: 244,820 sq. km.

Once Saddam is confirmed dead and the Iraqis believe it, people will
come out of the woodwork to tell us where the WMD is buried. The man
terrorised his people for decades, and they're not going to believe
he's truly gone until they see his rotting carcass on TV.

Brian