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To: Road Walker who wrote (339921)	6/12/2007 8:40:17 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574509

Then by all means let's do to SA, Egypt and Jordan what we did to Iraq! I never argued that we should invade and conquer any nation that supports terrorism in any way. Or even that the support for terrorism from Iraq was enough by itself to justify (in a practical sense) the invasion of Iraq. But it, combined with other actions of the Iraqi government, is enough to make the invasion something other than pure naked aggression. Face it Tim, the attack and occupation of Iraq was never about WMDs or terrorism, it was always about oil. "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. In that sense it was indeed "about oil". "Its about oil" is a very imprecise phrase. It certainly was to a great extent about WMD concerns, even if many of those concerns turned out to be unjustified (the longer term concerns where not, but the shorter term concerned where, and they where decisive in getting enough support to make the invasion happen) As for making Iraq worse, leaving now would be one of the things we could do that would clearly cause Iraq to take a turn for the worse.