They still do and opposite to what was promised to the people of USA there is no victory insight in Iraq for the USA??\nIs it worth it?? Was is (Is it )  for the Oil ??
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I wonder who really believes Iraq had weapons of mass destruction(WMD). Supposedly, the americans went to war to prevent Saddam from giving WMD to terrorists.  No WMD has been found, meaning either the iraqis never had WMD or somehow, the terrorists got the weapons. The american population was misled, not the government.  The government always had the reports saying Iraq had no WMD.  At the same time, there was a conflict about nuclear programs with North Korea.  Here they do have nuclear weapons.  Weird I don't see american troops in N. Korea.  So, was it for oil?  Definitely YES.\n\nIs it worth it?  Oil price has never been so high because constant supply from Iraq is not available.  Ask the families of the soldiers who died in that war, if it is worth it?  Ask the families of everyone else (workers or diplomats) who has died or been kidnapped if it is worth it?  Ask the American people who pay billions as tax money to support the military, if it is worth it?  \n\nThis war has been a complete failure.  There is only one reason:  The war was not necessary.
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I really dont think any of them have any idea what the 'mission' is apart from establishing an American presence in the Arab world. They say that we cant withdraw until the fighting stops..then they say the fighting is because the US is there. Well then get out and the fighting there will stop..sheesh. It's not rocket science. they doesn't want us there...they just want to bleed us for more money...billions and billions wasted....enough to ensure every American had heath coverage. You cant have a victory against people who hate you...their children and grandchildren will still be fighting ours. What really annoys me is that they feed us this  rubbish about the war on terror etc and they think we have no brain to figure things out.
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First off, its about securing access to Middle Eastern Oil.\nSome of the people behind this strategy, Richard Pearle, Feith, and Paul Wolfowitz planned this thing out...when the 9/11 attacks came out, Americans were panicked into letting the president have sweeping war powers.  In other words they acted like sheep - acting out of fear.\n\nNext, the Bush Admin drummed up a fake cause to go to war based on a fantasy that Saddam was hiding weapons of mass destruction - these were NEVER found.\nMost of the support for this arguement came from false intelligence, cherry picked to bolster a justification for the invasion and occupation. \n\nNow, with support for the war erroding at home, we are mired down in a fiasco with no exit strategy in a country where sectarian civil war is already in progress...and possibly getting worse.   Its never a good sign when no one is allowed to drive any kind of a car due to martial law. \n\nIn short, this is about oil and the American people have been lied to.  I don't see it ending until we run this administration out of office...or they run out of steam and mark time the rest of the time they are in office.
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I am paying attention. The reason these are not made more public is because it takes all of the steam out of the left's anti-war argument. \n\nIf things can be proven to be going well in Iraq, then they would have no basis for an argument.
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In some aspects, they do have a point.\n\nThe USA won't mind our own business. The arabs see the USA as imperialist hell bent on destroying them.\n\nThe US needs to do some good PR and change the situation.
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I asked that question here and I was castigated for doing so. Apparently they do not have any oil and the US is too busy fighting the Iraqis to intervene in mass genocide of the worst kind, in which Arab Islamic fighters from the North of Sudan are using every despicable tool of warfare, including rape and torture, to wipe out the black population of the South. Usual African brotherhood stuff.
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Their desperation for *anything* that they can call a victory is palpable.\n\nJust before the election, but close enough that any bloodbath will happen after. The Bush regime are thugs and bullies who are more than willing to sacrifice other people's lives and well-being (Iraqi, U.S., UK, Polish, anyone else who could be economically coerced into joining them) for the sake of their own profits.\n\nAnd it's not about oil supply -- why did they let so much of it burn and take so long to get it back on-line? The U.S. receives very little of its oil from Iraq. The invasion was about two things, reducing China's supply (and supposedly putting off Chinese industrial superiority from 5 years to 15) and thwarting the pricing of oil in euros. France (aka 'freedom's' antichrist) and Iraq were doing just that before the invasion. There are three oil exchanges, all of which operate in $, one in the U.S., one in the UK (hmm). Iran would like to set up another one (so is that really about nukes?). Pricing oil in $ forces most of the world to keep cash reserves in dollars. This is how the U.S. physically funds their $3.8 TRILLION debt.\n\nIt all makes sense once you see how the dots really connect. Their behaviour is shameful.
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If you believe Bush, which I don't, we won the same year we started.  What's going on now is peace and nation building.  What happened in Nam, and I was on active duty during the last three years, I retired at 20 years after Desert Storm, was that the Republicans, Nixon and Ford, caved as a result of public pressure and discontent with the body count.  Since Bush dodged service, I think has no understanding of that, and has set us up for the same result.  I will point out that our troops have done a lot of good for the Iraqis, I think our service people are the best of our best, my own daughter and her husband are on active duty.  Yes, I think a lot of us know the invasion was a mistake, I said so from day one, right now the question is how to fix it, and that is not something we will be able to do in a hurry.  Sad, but fact of life.
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And it appears as if they found people just like Saddam to run things. I sent this link to my senators and congressmen/women as well as my state house leaders. I asked them if they were aware of this and if so, how we could allow this to stand. Unacceptable.\n\nAnd yes, I think it is past time to commit to this war, no matter if it was right or wrong to start, we are in it now, get it over with. Win it. Given our technology, hardware and numbers, the only thing we are lacking at the moment is balls.
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I answered that in your repeated question... these are out-dated lies, after more people got involved in Iraq, no one found what your bush claimed.
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I believe they are behind much of it, yes. Usama Bin Laden made the statement years ago that the US does not have the stomach for this fight. If certain domestic factions have their way, he will be proven right.
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to RLP and Mini me...Iraq didn't come over here and blow us up (nor will they ever)....As far as the question...I fail to have a glimmer of an idea as to why re pub's hold on to their blind faith in george bush (lower case letter's emphasized). he is a mad man and his staff are either smart crooks or inept peter principle recipients
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Do the 'insurgents' (meaning native inhabitants) who are defending their families, have anywhere near the resources or technology the US has? Have they killed from long distances with the efficiency of the US bombs dropped on wrong targets? \nDo their high tech weapons match that of the US for contamination, radiation, poison, or are they designed to inflict disease and cancer for the coming generations? \nFor the Iraqi's, they know they're dead anyway, but now it's just determination to rid their home of an unwanted invader. All this resistance from a country the US cheated and left defenceless in the last Gulf War. \nDoes any US person care that there'll be lots more service men coming home with tumours and cancers caused from sitting around their own radiactive weapons? \n\nLike anyone who's actually followed the non-US version of events and lies, who wouldn't love to see every gram of radioactive fallout from the water and soil lovingly returned to the US where it came from, so their own citizens can enjoy the agonising pain of tumorous growths and deformed children. Surely that would convince GWB to form an exit strategy from Iraq, with or without his oil.\nI bet lots of people don't see anything wrong with supporting of an illegal invasion to selfishly get what they want at the cost of anyone who gets in their way.\n\nHow sick and shameful it really is.
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the government knew about it, they just didn't do anything about it. it gave them a reason to go and attack iraq. it's just another step closer to a world lead by one person, the anti-christ. remember, iraq and the rest of the middle east aren't the only ones that are under the influence of propaganda, we are too... it's just a matter of whether we listen to it or not.
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What a mess! USA, Saudi, Saudi, Turkey, Iran, Syria all looking to control the Iraqi oil, the US. sure has a lot to answer for, the instability is has created will cause problems for many years in the middle east, was this the intention? maybe it was, oilmen love high oil prices, arms manufacturers, and military suppliers love war. This catastrophe was predicted, but ignored. Now no-one can predict what will happen next, but you can sure there will be no peace in the region. The Bush regime will back the Saudis as they are like one big family, maybe Saudi approves/ helped develop US. policy, whatever happens the Shites will unite, and if they are bombed they'll unite more quickly. The US. will continue to guard their stolen oil fields, until their war funding is cut off, and when they are forced to leave it will be a free-for-all.
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I suggest reading 'armed madhouse' by greg palast. In this book he makes the arguement (with footnotes) that the reason we went into Iraq is for the oil. But not to take the oil. No ... we want to keep the oil in Iraq. You see economic supply and demand would dictate that if the second largest oil producing nation was bogged down by an occupation then prices would soar. Hmmmm and how have the oil companies been fairing since the invasion???? Who's side do you think this honest patriot is on?? http://blogs.it/0100206/stories/2004/03/15/houseOfBushHouseOfSaud.html
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You may be right, but did any Demcate tell you their plan for stopping the war? I never Heard one.  Did they tell you their plan for stopping terrorism before it happens here in American again, I didn't here any plan.  Did they tell you their plan for Social Security other than just raise taxes and the retirement age AGAIN.    And did they tell if they cared if we pull out of Iraq and Iran moves in 100,000's of thousands will be muredered and they will control that region and move against saudi arabia.  Did they tell us anything about that.  No, they don't live in the real world.  PS The Iraqi war was not about 9/11, it was about WMD that the Clinton CIA said were their, that Tony Blair of the UK said were their, that Putin of Russia siad were their.  And there is a good chance that the WMD were moved into Syria long before the invatsion.    The war was about a; making sure Iraq would not facilitate weapons to make another 9/11 here, and 2" creating a democracy in the middle east that would be pressure on Iran (whose people would like a democracy now, but can't because they have now have a religious nut job as a dictator who played a part in the American hostage crisis in 1979.  \n\nPlease tll em the Democratic plan for all this