No Bush is after oil no fight terror.
So in your opinion, it's wrong for Bush to overthrow a despot so that the Iraqi oil industry can be rebuilt and put back into production (even if such reconstruction primarily goes to US oil construction firms)...
But it's perfectly alright for the French and Russians to prop up and protect a brutal, genocidal dictator, so THEY can rebuild and exploit Iraqi oil?
I really don't understand this position, Chinu... I also don't understand why people, such as yourself, refused to criticize the French and Russians for their undermining of UNSC resolutions so they could protect their oil deals with Saddam's brutal regime..
300,000+ people died as a result of permitting the French and Russians to protect Saddam from being overthrown.
The entire region was destablized and in turmoil as a result of permitting Saddam to remain in power all of those years.
Yet, you somehow think it's evil for Bush to be interested in bringing Iraqi oil back online to pre-desert storm levels?
That seems a ridiculous position to take, especially with such international scrutiny over exactly who will benefit from future Iraqi oil contracts...
Shouldn't the Iraqi people have the right to decide who they hire to rebuild their oil infrastructure, as well as increasing their oil production??
Or do you think France and Russia should make that decision for Iraq?
Did we see any of this in the US. Clinton bombed the shit out of those caves in Afghanistan while we Americans not only went about our normal business but we prospered.
Hello??!!! Did Clinton succeed in killing anyone when he bombed those training camps (and that "aspirin factory") with Tomahawks? He certainly didn't succeed in disrupting Al-Qaeda's training operations.
It takes years for Al Qaeda to strike. The previous assault on the WTC was in 1993 and then they struck 8 years later.
Can you guarantee that? Have you forgotten (or do we even know about) the numerous attempts that have been disrupted by proper Law Enforcement and counter-intelligence activities?
What you fail to recognize is that there ARE STILL likely to be dozens of hidden Al-Qaeda cells operating in the US, RIGHT NOW. We really don't know what level of preparation they may be at.
As for fear psychosis, I have to disagree. He has not attempted overtly, IMO, to play upon domestic fear, or to create a Xenophobia towards foreigners. He has, thus far, taken prudent actions to increase security at home, without turning the country into a police state. But he has focused the primary US effort at CREATING FEAR AMONGST THOSE STATES THAT MIGHT CREATE MISCHIEF VIA TERRORISM.
There's a damn good reason there are 150,000 US troops in the Mid-East, an amount that will likely remain the same for some years to come. The threat nature to the US requires the US to place significant fear into the hearts of mid-east regimes that they face the fate of Saddam Hussein, should they attempt to support terrorism.
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