Things are never quite what they seem, like Iraq for example: There are two major camps - there were WMDs, there weren't any WMDs, and they hoot, thump chests and fling poo at each other.
I'm in the 3rd camp - it was not about spreading democracy, removing an evil dictator, WMD, terrorists ... stamping out Kurd genocide or any thing else. These are mere by-products or excuses or whatever else we want to categorize them as.
It was all about protecting our interests...OIL. If Oil was not involved we would never have gone. Right , wrong or indifferent this is my own personal conclusion I have come to believe.
Now its time for turn on the taps.. pay for the regime change, and offset the cost of the war the U.S tax payers are having to pick up, and at least make the deaths of so many young people have some sort of meaning. Early on we were told the Oil would pay the cost of the war.
I will also go out on a limb - within a Hundred years Iraq will convert to a theocratic gov't. or oligarchy or another dictatorship of sorts. But it wont be a democracy. For some reason some peoples just feel the need to be ruled it;s the only way some societies know how to function.
We fought the war for EXXON , SHELL, BP and the like. No one will ever convince me otherwise.
The Oil corps used their lobbyist leverage on congressional leaders, Admin and cabinet insiders , Rummy ,
Cheney, and the like , provided any plausible reason and played little Bush like a pawn and steered him to
thinking he needed to finish what Big daddy had started.
But in the end it was all about the Oil. No more no less , and Haliberton has done quite well to boot.
Another positive by-product.. what a Joke
