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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (340208)6/13/2007 12:37:36 PM
From: Alighieri  Read Replies (2) of 1574707
 
"About oil" doesn't imply "not about terrorism" or "not about WMD". The terrorist and WMD threat to our oil supply was part of the reason for the invasion.

Interesting logic. We had no substantial oil supply from Iraq, where there was no Alqueda terror presence, but we invaded it to prevent the non oil supply from being threatened by the non Alqueda presence who could acquire WMDs that did not exist.

All of which was being accomplished by UNSCOM.

In that sense it was indeed "about oil". "Its about oil" is a very imprecise phrase.

It is the one "precise" sentence in the paragraph. The potential of the oil there, coupled with the notion that we could "shock and awe" terrorists into submission is what drove these criminal idiots to do what they did. They forgot that people who are willing to strap bombs to their chests just to kill infidels, particularly american infidels, are poor targets of intimidation.

So now we have precisely what they sought out to prevent. Ain't it grand?

Al
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