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Outlaw85 -> RE: Russia invades Georgia (8/12/2008 1:57:14 PM)
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thadius is right. this is about money like everything.
as for iraq, more than anything, iraq is a pawn in a giant chess game. sometimes you move a piece on a chess board to distract and draw your opponent into exposing themselves so that you can attack them with something else. Saddam was a douche, and he kept playing games with UN thinking that everyone was too week and timid to actually deal with him, that was his own words.
but bigger than that, iraq was a gambit, by attacking a muslim country, the us forced al qaeda, who wants to be known as teh "protectors of islam" to use more of their resources to attack the US in iraq, thus having less resources to attack the US on their home turf. it's also drawing out the al qaeda leader as they go to iraq to replace the ones that are killed. the point is, is that the iraq war is going to drain al qaeda of resources and power much faster than it will drain the US. it's a battle of endurance.
not saying its right, but I also believe the people of iraq will be better off in the long run in a democratic nation, it's just going to take a long long time for things to get better just like post american civil war, and shoot, we're STILL feeling the aftershocks of the american civil war, these people will not feel them for as long I think because they have our money building them back up.
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