On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:20:27 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:


On Fri 12 Aug 2005 03:49:48p, uncle arnie wrote
in message :

yachtboy! wrote:

If there weren't any wmd in Iraq, and it was ossama who masterminded
9/11, why are we in Iraq?
I would be interested in details, not RNC talking points.


Oil. They're building a nice pipeline from the north.
Some people are Alexander the Great wannabes.
War is good for business (lots of contracts and expenditures).
Fundamentalist religious people believe God is on their side.



That tired, old argument won't withstand even the slightest scrutiny.
If we were in it for the oil, then I want my share of the purloined petrol.
Injecting free oil into the market shouldn't drive prices up...

-=jd=-
They went to war to stop Saddam from selling the oil.