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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (299413)	9/23/2002 6:05:16 PM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

We knew Saddam intended to invade Kuwait in the summer of 1990. Our ambassador even told him that we don't take sides in an Arab-Arab dispute. Surely we had military satelites monitoring the Middle East that detected Saddam's troop build up along the border with Kuwait. Any thinking person must ask themselves: Why didn't we do something to respond to Saddam's clear threat against Kuwait? Why didn't we sternly warn Saddam that an invasion of Kuwait would result in a bloody war? Why didn't we position troops in Kuwait to prevent an attack from Iraq? The writing was on the wall. People in the Bush Admin even admitted that they thought Saddam would stop at the oil fields and leave the rest of Kuwait alone. Unfortunately, I think the answer to all these questions is that the U.S. WANTED Saddam to invade Kuwait, so we could use it as a pretext to station our troops in the Gulf region to keep a firm grip on the oil supplies. We told the Saudis that we'd only be there temporarily and we're still there 12 years later. People in the U.S. just don't see the big picture. There are wealthy elites in this country who have their sights on the world's resources and will topple governments, install and support dictators, and even start wars, to secure their access to those resources. That is how the world really operates. It's not about doing the moral thing. It's all about money.