and tell me, CP, what is oil? what's it worth?
it's like saying gold isn't money. i mean c'mon, use your head.
okay...what does that have to do with what you quoted?
Of course it's worth a lot, but it is one market out of many and cannot really be compared with national war spending for a much, much larger country.
i think the US underestimated Iraq's resistance. remember that before they attacked they made sure Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, i think they thought there'd be little fight.
You mean for the military aspect of this Iraq operation? That was actually said to be one of the most one-sided large scale offensives in recent history; the US lost something like 200 men in total and completed the takeover in three weeks.
as far as i know America already gets oil from Saudi Arabia, so attacking it would be pointless. Iraq, because of Saddam, they
weren't getting any oil from. it makes sense i think.
No, how we can take all their oil just like that? They will sell the oil to us, but they obviously claim the profits. The US has an agreement with the royal family to allow the usage of their territory for military bases in that region in exchange for cash, but the government is doing that because they don't want to get on the Americans' bad side; they actually do not like the US at all and have made any official statements to that effect.
no, i'm not saying that, but Iraq was in quite a fix too though.
If they say they had WMDs, America attacks them.
If they say they don't have WMDs, America attacks them.
Yeah, but that is alright; it was not expected that they would admit that they had WMDs even if they did (I mean, why should they?). If they did not have them, then it is okay too, since it is not a huge cost to us and it's better to be safe than sorry in such situations.
the point isn't whether they tried, because they did, but they weren't successful thanks to the troops protecting them. also tell me what can be sold in the "black market" from a hospital... a lung machine?
What is a lung machine?
But anyway, hospitals at least contain some medical equipment that can carried around and all of which is quite expensive. Oil refineries contain maybe a few tables and chairs, but not much else that can be just picked up and taken (unless you are some kind of superman who can tear hundred-ton oil processing units off the ground and carry them to your home
).
and that's waht i've been saying... don't believe everything you hear on the media, because they are biased! and you're agreeing with me!
Exactly! But what you have been saying is that some of the media companies are less interested in making money than others, which is what I am countering.
And so it continious... For every unsubtantiated argument, there is a counter-argument. An endless loop here at HLP or so it seems...
Hey, it's fun.
I finally solved this math problem last night that had been nagging at me for some weeks; I have to celebrate by posting some crap here, right?
Unless you guys decide to get some actual facts with your arguments... Its not a philosophical debate here you know.
Everything is a philosophical debate here (or can easily be turned into one). If you want actual facts, you need to look in math books.
