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DrProgressive -> RE: ISIS Destroying Relics (7/11/2014 4:27:18 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DomKen
But the plan was to take all of Iraq's oil. the documentation has been out there for quite some time and American oil services companies did get quite rich rebuilding Iraq's oil industry.
I see. HuffnPoo told you there was a vast secret conspiracy, and you know for a fact that everything worth doing is supposed to be done for free, regardless of how dangerous...
I suppose you volunteered to dodge the bullets and the bombs in order to help get the Iraqi people up and running on oil revenues free of charge?
Oh, wait - you don't think the lives of the Iraqi people or the many ancient relics in Iraq are worth anything, especially not any personal risk on your part
I almost forgot
You mean it wasn't free of charge? A plan to liberate the Iraqi people and help usher in democracy to the Middle East? Yeah, I thought it was to get the "Weapons of Mass Destruction". But the neocon folks keep changing the story, I do not know what it is any longer.
I am sorry, I do not remember the Iraqi people asking for anyone to "dodge bullets" or "help" them. Come to think about it, have you considered that the fact there were bullets flying might be that they don't want certain people there? Ahmad Chalabi does not constitute a majority or even a decree for the will of the Iraqi people, neither does a video clip of Iraqis cheering that a statue of Saddam Hussein went down. If a couple of guys that go on TV constitute a majority or the will of the people, then we have a problem, China or Russia might see some Occupy Wall Street guys on TV and assume they need assistance overthrowing the U.S. government.
In regards to the oil, I do not think any Iraqis wanted their oil to be under the control of Wolfy & Dick & Co, the reality is the Iraqis, regardless of whether they are Shia or Sunni (or even Kurd for that matter) are very concerned with their natural resources. Before Saddam was in power in Baghdad, the Iraqi President Abd al-Karim Qasim made a ridiculous statement: He wanted to nationalize Iraqi oil--take it away from the Anglo-American company that was giving him and his country kibbles and bits. For that, the CIA as later revealed by the Church Committee report, attempted to assassinate him and sprang up programs to bring his downfall. This was in the 1960s--How about we end intervention there? Maybe just take a quick breather?
If the Russians or the Chinese ran a program to foment the overthrow of the U.S. government, be it through a group such as Occupy or another group of their own creation, there would be an executive order exponentially more severe to American liberty than the Patriot Acts. Yet, we point our fingers and say, "Look, they gots a dictator there!" Yeah, they have dictators, its a natural response to constant war, espionage, covert action, regime change, and a list of other violations committed since the decline of the Ottoman Empire.
Those dictators were a thousand times more preferable than some radical, crazy, Islamic Jihadist group that beheads people if they do not pray a certain way.
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