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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AuBug who wrote (6858)	9/3/2004 11:06:14 AM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27181

Oil started the whole mess when Saddam invaded Kuwait in 1990. Then the terrorists stepped in, actions born of poverty, stupidity, reactionary beliefs, who knows. What IS known, is that the actions of a few cannot lead to the destruction of the civilized world. The fact of the matter is that the entire world depends on oil right now, the Japanese and Chinese more so than anyone. So that hackneyed belief that this war was simply because Bush wanted to repay debts to "big oil" is ludicrous and insulting. Reasonable people know better. Another thing, perhaps of even more importance: the Tigris and Euphrates, rising in Turkey and flowing through Iraq.

To: AuBug who wrote (6858)	9/3/2004 11:09:34 AM
From: Sojourner Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27181

I think the UN should remove all tryants, but there were members in the UN that got kickbacks from Saddam in the food for oil program. Rumsfeld turned down Iraqi oil money to pay for the war. We import more oil from Canada and Mexico than we do from Saudi Arabia now. The Saudis are concerned about when there oil is gone because their revenue is over 90% oil and they have 40% unemployment now. Some reasons we went into Iraq was 1) we were flying protection missions since the first Gulf War to protect Kurds and Shi'ites. 2) Rice and others felt there was enough opposition to Saddam to warrant us supporting them. 3) Lieberman and McCain passed a bill under the Clinton administration that said if Iraq wasn't cooperating with inspections then we would act. 4) Saddam's sons-in-law reported that Saddam had a nuclear weapons program when they escaped to Jordan. 5) Congress passed a resolution that president Bush could respond if Saddam failed to cooperate with inspections. 6) Powell, at the UN, presented taped conversations of Iraqi soldiers transporting to conceal chemical weapons. 7) Saddam was financing an Al Quieda unit in Northeast Iraq. 8) Saddam paid $34 million to Palestian families of terrorists. 9) Wolfowitz argued that a democratic Iraq would allow for a better chance for peace in Israel. 10) A democratic Iraq might influence other nations in the region.