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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: American Spirit who wrote (27361)4/26/2002 9:19:40 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Hi American Spirit; Re: "Just watched a former military guy on TV explaining Iraq might be attacked by us, seizing their oilfields in the south ... Someone ought to take Saddam's oil from him. He doesn't deserve to have that kind of clout. ... Saddam's oil could pay for the campaign. That's the best part."

And since we're one of the world's largest importers of oil, it's obvious that we should be the ones to take that oil. I'm sure the rest of the world won't mind, any more than they minded it when Iraq invaded Kuwait to take their oil.

Re: "Actually it didn't sound that unlikely despite our lack of overt support from allies." We'd have lots of allies. The rest of the world loves the US and will do whatever it takes to make sure that we get all that Iraqi oil that we deserve. Heck, martyrs from all over the world will show up as volunteers us. We won't have to send any troops, the rest of the world will fall over itself trying to be the first to help us.

Re: "And he's certainly not an elected leader so the Iraqis would probably love to be free of him." The German people hated Hitler thoroughly. All those films showing hundreds of thousands of screaming, cheering maniacal German citizens are fakes. No one loves a strong man. Iraq will be a complete pushover. This invasion is a done deal.

-- Carl
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