Kendo said:
780 usa soldiers killed so far and riseing,all for oil
and dont anybody try an justify it by any other means
AMERICAN LIVES ARE BEING LOST PLAINLY AND SIMPLY FOR OIL AND THE STABILISATION OF THE USA ECONOMY.
If it is all for oil, then how come Iraqi oil is not flowing into America by the tanker full?
The true fact is, Kendo, is that if it was all just for oil, then we would not have invaded in the first place - we would have just lifted the sanctions. So no, the "just for oil" argument doesn't fly.
If it was all just for oil, we could have just simply drilled for oil in Alaska, or removed the restrictions for oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico - more oil there than in all of Iraq.
No, it isn't JUST for oil. It wasn't, and isn't for oil at all. It was because, plain and simple, that Saddam Hussein had, and I do mean HAD, weapons of mass destruction, and would not declare them or destroy them.
We all think 9/11 was bad. If Al Qaeda were to get their hands on some of the stuff Iraq had, 9/11 would be a pitifully small episode. Just three weeks ago Jordanian security forces foiled an Al Qaeda-linked attack on Amman, Jordan that would have killed EIGHTY THOUSAND people. That same chemical attack in New York would killed HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of people.
Do you think Bush was lying about the WMD's? Then I guess you think the Prime Minister of England and Canada were lying too. And Bill Clinton who said on Nightline in March that he still believes Saddam had WMD right up to the time the US invaded. The presidents of Portugal, Spain (yes, Spain) and Poland believed Saddam had WMD's.
And everyone that has even the barest of an intel community believes now that Saddam smuggled his WMD's into Syria - which is where that Al Qaeda strike force entered Jordan from just before getting arrested.
It isn't about oil. Never was. It was about doing the best we could do to prevent another 9/11, a larger and more horrific 9/11 from happening.
By the way, here's a quote from a recent news article:
"Canadian PM: 'Terrorists Have Access' to Iraq's WMDs
By Jimmy Moore
Talon News
May 12, 2004
MONTREAL (Talon News) -- Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin said on Tuesday that ousted Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction that are now in the possession of terrorists.
Speaking to a crowd of 700 university researchers and business leaders in Montreal, Martin said he believes the possibility of future terrorist strikes has dramatically increased because the terrorists have built a sizable arsenal of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that formerly belonged to Iraq.
"The fact is that there is now, we know well, a proliferation of nuclear weapons, and that many weapons that Saddam Hussein had, we don't know where they are," Martin stated. "That means terrorists have access to all of that."
However, France and Germany as well as Democratic lawmakers and liberal political groups in the United States accuse the Bush administration of making up evidence about WMDs to launch a war against Iraq.
Even Hussein's capture by coalition forces late last year has not thwarted the threat of future attacks, Martin expressed.
"I believe that terrorism will be, for our generation, what the Cold War was to generations that preceded us," he said. "I don't think we're out of it yet."
Although former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien said poverty caused terrorism to prevail on September 11, Martin disagreed and said the attacks were nothing more than "hatred" from Islamic extremists.
Martin said he believes countries around the globe, including Third World countries, need to work to defeat terrorism for good. He is promoting having an international group formed among no more than 20 world leaders who will take on the topic of terrorism.
President George W. Bush approved of this plan and has encouraged Martin to submit his idea to the European Union and Latin America.
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