wars aren't good for the little people. only for business and for the government. but I guess you aren't one of the little people.
They may or may not be so, depending on other circumstances; I can think of situations where it can go either way.
You americans should be proud of Michael Moore. It's always good to see/read another side of a story.
The same can be said about bin Laden though.
I don't want to get a point. I'm ignorant and hypocritical.
That is obvious enough.
I don't know why you people even try to tell anything to CP. Your words don't even reach this guy.
I would not be talking; I actually take the time to respond to any arguments directed at me, and I don't forget what people say to me within two days. And of course, I don't run out of credible arguments immediately and start having to resort to personal insults.
considdering how much you are going to make later on it, it is pocket change.
As far as the monetary gains/losses alone go, the US will lose a lot here; even the war expenses alone will exceed any benefits gained by taking all of the oil, and the reconstruction costs will be much more. If this was about money, the US must be hiring the worst economists in the world.
The US does indeed have big interests in doing this, but they have nothing to do with money.
There are a LOT of question to be answered about the motivations of this war, and the so-called 'Bush Doctrine' in general - which seems to be an excuse for aggressive colonialism / 'guinboat diplomacy' which has alientated the US and (sad to say) UK from the rest of the world.
As I said earlier, this is not unique to Bush or the US at all.
Every country is doing this right now, and has been doing so for thousands of years, because it is the winner's strategy in international politics. If only Bush was doing it, the US would encompass the entire globe by now, but the others aren't that stupid.
After all, why hasn't there been a similar amount of effort to deal with the likes Iran, N.Korea (WMD), or Zimbabwe (Dictatorship). And didn't the US make offers to (I think) Gambia - a military dictatorship - when it was still trying to secure a 2nd resolution?
Because they do not pose a threat to us at the moment (with the exception of NK, but they might be the next ones up). The US is not against Iraq just because it has a totalitarian government, but mainly because it is a threat to our objectives; this is what all smart governments do. Of course, a side effect of the war will be the deposing of Hussein and the Iraqi people will benefit, but that goal is secondary to other things.
If USA starts rebuilding Iraq, the admins here, at VW and everywhere else may bann me for life. They have my permission.
Now this is the best thing I have read in this thread so far. I'm going to keep a record of this quote for future reference.
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