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To: Road Walker who wrote (243843)	7/28/2005 1:02:48 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576113

It's the oil, stupid. What has so often gotten lost in all the talk about terror and weapons of mass destruction is the fact that for so many of the most influential members of the Bush administration, the obsessive desire to invade Iraq preceded the Sept. 11 attacks. It preceded the Bush administration. The neoconservatives were beating the war drums on Iraq as far back as the late 1990's. Iraq was supposed to be a first step. Iran was also in the neoconservatives' sights. The neocons envisaged U.S. control of the region (and its oil), to be followed inevitably by the realization of their ultimate dream, a global American empire. Of course it sounds like madness, which is why we should have been paying closer attention from the beginning. Yes, Americans should have been paying closer attention. Americans need to do less complaining about "those crooks in Congress" and making more demands on them for more responsible leadership. On the other hand, Americans are not an imperial kind of people......the neocons don't understand that basic fact. That should be understood by the people who think that the formation of a permanent Iraqi government will lead to the withdrawal of American troops. There is no real withdrawal plan. The fighting and the dying will continue indefinitely. Truer words were never written. ted