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Originally posted by KnifeMissle
Wow, your English is excellent and even better than a lot of American posters on this board. Is English an official language of Norway?
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Why thank you. English is a second language here, we are taught english from age 7. We hardly dub any movies, and are one of the countries in Europe most influenced by the US, so most Norwegians speak pretty good English.
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Originally posted by Mojo_PeiPei
So tell me Eple did those Oslo accords work??? Oh yeah thats right...
Furthermore we don't get oil from Iraq, all in all we get about 15-20% of our oil from Saudi Arabia.
Also if anybody hates the U.S. they can piss off. If memory serves if it weren't for us Norway and the rest of the civilized world would either be eating brats and Drinking Heinkens, or cow-towing to the A-Japs.
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Heh, I said I am pleased with our role as a a nation which seeks peaceful solutions, not that it always work. And it's not like earlier military campaigns like Iraq2 has done great things for world peace either (Vietnam).
And please, stop tryng to pin some "anti-american" badge on my chest. I do not hate America or American citizens. There is a great difference between respecting a country and it's culture and zealously endorsing every policy enforced by it's government.
As far as oil is conserned, it's not always about what you gain, but maybe what others don't gain....There have been made speculations on wether the main goal was to restrict France and Germany's easy access to oil purchased from Saddam's regime. Thus revealing the whole thing as a way to further tilt the power balance between the growing EU and the US in favour of the US. This may sound like paranoid speculations, but from an historical perspective, it wouldn't really be too surprising.