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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries
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To: TobagoJack who wrote (39613)10/16/2003 11:46:33 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (3) of 74559
 
Jay, you should know that the war against Iraq was because of the threat to the USA from Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and also for regime change.

Both goals have been almost totally accomplished. There are no weapons of mass destruction, just rocket propelled grenades and road-side bombs. Regime change has been effected by the capture or killing of nearly all the deck of cards. Saddam is still on the loose.

So it is obvious that as soon as Saddam has been captured, regime change will be complete and the USA will go home, leaving the oil for the locals to sell in the way they wish.

Surely you don't think that the USA will stay in Iraq after the capture of Saddam and the remaining few in the deck of cards. That would imply that there were motives other than as stated.

Personally, I think it's always been about oil and political dominance of other oil suppliers, such as Iran and Saudi Arabia. Then there's Israel, which gets political support because there are important people in the USA who want the USA to give support to Israel. Which means Syria is likely to be in trouble.

It was obvious that any weapons of mass destruction were trivial if they did exist. Also, given the number of vicious, murderous, torturing regimes the USA has supported over the decades, including that of Saddam, it was obvious that liberating the Iraqi people wasn't really part of the motivation. There are lots of people around the world who would like to be liberated, but mostly they aren't sitting on huge lakes of oil.

Mqurice
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