SeeingEyeDog wrote:

I hope that just once naive Americans would have a taste of what it would be
like if our enemies had control of a vital strategic U.S. resource. Sorry
but the 70's oil embargo was just not severe enough. Besides, it was such a
long time ago that the current crop of college boys haven't a clue.

I am fed up with your Great Game bull****. You see everything as a Big
Contest between America and China. Us good, them bad. Everything and
everybody can be sacrificed so that Us can win. Uzbekistan? Iraq? Who
cares? As long as we control the resources those countries contain and
not China, the people who actually LIVE there can go to hell, for they
are expendable pawns in the Game. A nuke in New York? So what, as long
as we invade Iran because of it, and grab their oil so that China can't.
New Yorkers and Iranians are pawns in the Game too, and they might as
well be cardboard cutouts, because infinite numbers of them can be
burned in the furnace of imperial ambition. You are not only psychotic,
you are EVIL. You have implied that regime change in China is worth any
price, even a nuclear war, even as you savage CCP nomenklatura for
saying the same thing about America. This sort of thing led to the ruin
of many countries during the Cold War, and almost led to a nuclear
holocaust. All in the name of the Game, all so that one side could stand
on the rubble of the world and say that they won. I don't want that to
happen again.


"Carter-K8VT" wrote in message
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yachtboy! wrote:

why are we in Iraq?

Good question...and Brad gave a good answer:

You are in Iraq because the American Military had lost Osama and Bush
had to
divert the attention and anger of the American people and make it look
like
he was doing something about it.

You are in Iraq because War is good for business.

You are in Iraq because there was a recession in America.

You are in Iraq because two days after Bush sent in the troops he
announced
a $3.6 trillion dollar rescue package for the American economy.

You are in Iraq so that American businesses can rebuild the country and
spend some of that $3.6 trillion and pay it to American workers and
shareholders.

You are in Iraq so that American businesses can supply guns, tanks,
hummers,
radios, uniforms, aircraft, buildings, food, helmets and 6ft wooden
boxes
and restock using some of that $3.6 trillion.

You are in Iraq because War is good for business.

Well stated, Brad!

Read General Smedley Butler's book (circa 1940) and you will see just
how right that last statement of yours really is...

Also, if you read "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins
(recently on the Best Seller lists for months), his answer to yachtboy's
question about "Why Iraq" is:

1) A great strategic location in the Middle East; easy access to the
Arabian Sea and many Middle Eastern countries of interest. (No doubt
why we are building 3 or 4 permanent bases there).

2) Oil reserves some say are as great as those in Saudi Arabia.

3) Between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the largest amount of fresh
water in the Middle East.

Many have asked why we have no exit policy for Iraq. Uh, with all the
economic and geopolitical reasons given above, I don't think our gummint
wants to exit.

I guess "we the people" had a chance to decide if the above strategy was
worth the maiming and death of our youth and countless innocent
civilians. Looks like 51% went along with the plan...

P.S. As Perkins points out in "Confessions", maybe, just maybe, the
Islamist world isn't mad at us because of our "life style", but rather
that they are tired of us jerking them around, our tinkering in their
politics and having to dance to our tune. (Again, before you turn your
flame throwers on, give "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" a quick
read). Or better yet, have W loan you his Bible and read about "walking
a mile in the other man's shoes". Imagine yourself for a moment as the
citizen of another country. For decades the CIA has been tinkering with
your politics, bribing officials, arranging assassinations and fixing
elections. After *decades* of this, mightn't *you* finally get a little
****ed off?




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