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| By the time this Iran thing has hit the fan..... | |
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| Chris | Feb 23 2012, 04:29 AM Post #51 |
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Or poppy patch as in Afghanistan. |
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| tomdrobin | Feb 23 2012, 01:39 PM Post #52 |
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I think the main reason the neocons urged GW to evade Iraq and take out Sadam, was political. The hope was a functioning democracy in Iraq would be infectious. Perhaps we should have been more patient and waited for the "Arab Spring". |
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| Chris | Feb 23 2012, 09:28 PM Post #53 |
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The neocon letters can be found and show they believed it was in our interests to use our military to force oil flowing in the free market. Invading Iraq was later sugar coated as spreading democracy--neocons are ex-liberals and ex-commies who have no interest in democracy. |
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| Mountainrivers | Feb 23 2012, 09:31 PM Post #54 |
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You bought into that crap, did you Tom? |
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| Tim from AL | Feb 23 2012, 09:52 PM Post #55 |
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Not exactly. I said they should make a glass parking lot out of them Yes. OR, leave them alone. Either take a dump or get off the can. This sitting around and just hoping it won't pass running off at the mouth isn't doing one single thing but pissing off everyone. |
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| Mountainrivers | Feb 23 2012, 10:00 PM Post #56 |
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It's not that black and white, Tim. If you knew what those guys in the government know, you might be able to say that, but you don't. |
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| Chris | Feb 23 2012, 10:27 PM Post #57 |
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I bought into the democracy spreading BS for a time as well. Won't be fooled twice though, so I don't buy the humanitarian reasons now sugar-coating war. |
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| Mountainrivers | Feb 23 2012, 11:11 PM Post #58 |
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You're probably right about that. Too much money at stake to be spending on trivial things like humanitarian efforts. We need more oil. |
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| Thumper | Feb 24 2012, 04:19 AM Post #59 |
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And the CEOs need bigger bonuses. |
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| Chris | Feb 24 2012, 04:44 AM Post #60 |
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As I understand it we don't need more, we have plenty. Keystone shale oil would be refined here but shipped elsewhere. Anyway, I don't buy the neocon arguments, not a just cause for war. |
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