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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated

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To: LindyBill who wrote (44455)5/14/2004 8:02:21 PM
From: Paul van Wijk  Read Replies (1) of 793843
 
The cleanup will take a little longer.

At this moment it is not clear which strategic goals the US wants to achieve in Iraq, and important, how they will achieve that strategic goals.

Most likely is that it is about oil, and having a military base in the Middle-East now the US has to leave Saudi Arabia. The problem is that the Iraqis hate you as far as I know. So the odds that after the Iraqis have had their first election the first thing they will do is that ask the US to move and never come back seems to ge quite high.

Anuhow, why is the US doing this and how will they achieve it.

Another important questions is IMO 'Is it worth the money and the lifes of US-soldiers'. Bush reminds me at a CEO of a dotcom 5 years ago, bragging during a conferencecall that 'the eyeballs' had grown 50%, meanwhile burning money like hell.

Regards,

Paul
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