Ten,
re: Right about what? That sanctions and inspections were working and needed to continue, or that sanctions and inspections were too inhumane and needed to be lifted?
I was talking about the results, not the motivation. But if you want to go back to the motivations, it's OK with me.
Iraq had been crippled by the sanctions, they posed as much threat to the US as Italy. Bush knew that, anybody that believes that Iraq was a significant threat to the US is an idiot. Chaney knew, knows, that in the near future, we will hit the wall, oil consumption is rising faster than new <cheap> oil is becoming available. It's a death spiral as far as oil prices and the world economy is concerned. We haven't done sh-t to develope alternate resources.
Now there are a lot of very pragmatic people that would say "OK, we need the oil to avert a world recession, lets go secure it, make sure those last easy idle fields are producing within the next five years". And what the hell, it's a decent argument. But it has nothing to do with the crap that is being fed to the American people on a daily basis.
We're trading American lives, and innocent Iraqi lives, for economic stability. This is not a moral crusade, or (LOL) self defense, it's all about oil and money.
Some people will think that is good and some people will think that is bad, and some people will buy the rhetoric. Ten, you are too smart to fall into the last group.
John |
