what is FACT is that the U.S. had the opportunity to seize Iraq and "manage" their oil at the end of the gulf war. I guess their oil lust was temporarily sated by something else eh? Nobody seems able to give a good account of why this occurred (without it flying in the face of "its all about the oil").
Now....I'm not saying that oil is irrelevant. Saddam with control of all the oil and couple hundred nukes is a nightmare scenario. What I really object to is being told how "obvious" it is that it is ONLY about the oil and any fool can see that it has nothing to do with security etc etc.
To support this argument.......the grand daddy piece of evidence is supposedly...North Korea. See!.......this PROVES its all about the oil.
Well........unfortunately this argument explodes into a trillion tiny droplets of protoplasm if one is forced to consider that we were on the brink of war with N. Korea in 1994. And it wasn't about oil...WAS IT?. And it would have cost a darn sight more lives than Iraq ever will. So what do people do? They conveniently disregard this inconvenient fact. Well jeeesh...this doesn't fit with our oil theory...so........ummmmmmmmmmm....didn't happen.
>>Someone needs to teach you the meaning of blatant hipoccracy
While were on the subject of teaching, someone needs to teach you how to spell hypocrisy! [Sorry couldn't resist. Yes I'm a bitch :-) ]
>>hasn't it reached your conciousness where OBL is at the moment ?
No. Where is he? You really should tell the U.S government you know.
Is he alive? How do you know this? Can you provide links please?
I think the thing which has you convinced that you know where OBL is
hiding is the same thing which has you convinced that Iraq poses no
security threat. You are a true believer.
Al Qaeda has presences in 30-40 countries. Pakistan is certainly a good candidate. So is Yemen, Bangledesh, Somalia, Indonesia, Chechnya.
Its also possible that he is dead. This gets my 20 bucks at the moment.
>>If you are intelligent
oh here we go...........well I CAN spell hypocrisy....does that count?
[okay, okay 1 point deducted for second low blow :-) ]
>>you will also have to be prepared to admit that if tomorrow Saddam Hussien
>>stepped down and left Iraq, Bush would again change his story
You mean change the story to justify invasion? Not really.
>>Are you willing to state point blank that Bush would never do this ?
Would never do anything so naive :-) I would say that Bush would then evaluate his replacement and act accordingly.
Let's turn it around. Are you willing to state point blank that if Saddam gets killed in a coup and is replaced with a person who
a) allows unlimited access to UN inspectors
b) seeks international help in decommissioning WMDs
c) cuts military spending in half in an attempt to buy food/water/medicine
...you still see the U.S. invading?