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Protestors are clamoring “No Blood for Oil.” President Bush is pushing for war with Iraq, apparently because of the dangers of nuclear weapons. But we all know his high minded goals are just a façade to gain the control of the lucrative oil reserves. We have already established the cost of war -billions of dollars for equipment, and thousands of innocent men and women will be sent halfway around the world to fight a war for purely greedy economic reasons. Now, I am just as reluctant about shedding American blood as the next guy, but exactly how much oil and how much blood are we talking about? I mean if its 30 gallons of American blood for a gallon of oil, what sane man would agree to terms like that? However, if it’s more like 50 gallons of oil for every pint of American blood, then I’d say, lets get down to business. In the first Gulf War, around 300 Americans lost their lives. Figuring the average American loses about 8 pints of blood per death, it amounted to one pin