Not Your Sweetie

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Lebensraum



CUMHURIYET- Regular columnist and former Finance Minister Zekeriya Temizel comments on
the prospect of a US-led war against Iraq. A summary of his column is as follows:

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But what is the real, behind-the-scenes reason? It is 'lebensraum.' This is a German word that
could be translated as 'living space,' a word which forces us to remember the horrors of
World War II.

For Hitler, lebensraum meant all of the geographical space needed to supply the German
nation with its material demands and security. [Directorate note: Hitler used these alleged
needs as pretexts for invading Czechoslovakia, Poland, Russia, and other countries.] '
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Then, what does 'living space' mean for the US? To see, just take a look at the US Energy
Information Administration's official website at http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu. In 1960, the
US produced 33.5% of the world's total oil output, while it consumed 31% of it. But by 2000,
these figures changed to 8.5% and 25.9% respectively. And today the US alone consumes
one-fourth of the world's oil production yet produces just one-fifteenth of it. Statistics
predict that within seven years, the US will have completely exhausted all of its own domestic
oil resources.
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