I just don't seem to be able to figure it out.
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There are three reasons for being in Iraq:\n\n1. Oil\n2. Oil\n3. OIL!\n\nOther than that, there is oil.\n\nIn a speech on campus last night Dinesh D'sousa, a prior advisor to the Regan administration explained the distance between political rhetoric of the Republican party and action.  The REAL reasons for war in Iraq, according to D'sousa is\n\n1. Oil.  Oil prices are low because we have bullied them low through military action.\n\n2. End the sanctions against Iraq which had killed hundreds of thousands of children, yet not budged SH.\n\n3. Send a message to terrorists and their sponsors that the US will respond with force and has the will to fight (we can safely assume that anyone promoting people flying aircraft to kill innocent people in the name of war are psychopaths, no matter what the human tools were programmed to believe)\n\n4. Containment of the anti-US Iran, which is viewed as the real top terrorist investor, but usually manages to avoid creating the public situation in which there is a political premise for war.  Basically, while we are engaged in hot conflicts in neighboring states, we have technically been in a state of cold war with Iran for over a decade...  (consider long-term trends with other countries the US refused to recognize).\n\n5. We are likewise in an undeclared cultural war with a significant segment of the Islamic world that does not appreciate religious diversity or liberalism and would happily have your head chopped off if you suggested gay marriage be ok, or that all groups be treated fairly, or that women be treated with respect and "equality."  It is, as with the Cold War, the result of two incompatible worldviews struggling on this level for world domination.\n\nA MAJOR weakness of his arguements was this:\n\nA problem of promoting real democracy in the middle east is that middle east democracies have tended to support the kind of regimes that are hostile to the US!  As a result, the US has often supported liberal dictators over Islamic fundamentalist elected officials.  In a way, this is not so different of an attitude within the US of Democratic party supporters being angry at the "bad decision" of many other US citizens.  Democracy isn't necessarily what we hope it would be over there either.  So - here is the part he did not state - how does it make sense to try to build democracy in Iraq if the majority of Iraq is muslim and muslims have been hostile to the US?\n\nAs I had argued LONG before troops were deployed, there were better, or at least more plausable, reasons to attack Iraq and occupy it for the time.  These reasons also indicate that we can expect to have a base in Iraq for a long time.\n\nAnother reason why the US are over there:\n\nCurrently 80% of the country is allied to the US.  The remaining 20% (Bathists) are bitter about being removed from power and is the remaining opposition force, with far smaller numbers actually fighting.  So if we leave, we let down 80% of Iraq to accomodate an abusive minority group (how else did SH maintain power?).\n\nNow do I LIKE it?  No.  Is it practical?  Maybe not, but those are the reasons why the US is in Iraq today.  I certainly hate the idea of vulturous investors getting rich on weapons and oil stocks.  Then there are people like Michael Moore joining in on the investing... Well, can I blame them if nobody is going to stop it?  I don't know how to stop them myself, so I just tell them they are wrong to profit from someone else's misery...\n\nLike the detractors to the idea of there being WMDs in Iraq, D'sousa had the advantage of speaking from hindsight.  My own opinions that reflected *some* of these arguments - that the UN sanctions were unethical and untenable in particular - were presented in a public forum even on the very day that Bush publicly announced the invasion.  I guess that's what I get for not copywriting and demanding I am properly cited.  (shrugs)\n\nPS.  It is because o
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Its simple. I have no clue.
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I am no expert. But I don't think they can.
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Confused is an understatement.
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at the moment , I am in a state of confusion !
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okay, i've thought about it and still...no idea
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ummm....figure what out dear?
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I don't know. I lost track.
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I have no clue my friend :-)
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i don't know but is it actually some kinda of a question coz i just didn't understand it
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I`m lost. I don`t know where to begin.\n\nTHE END!!
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it is driving me nuts as well, I wish I knew
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Honestly, I'm not sure. I wish I knew though.
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I first learned about it about two months ago and I'm still trying to understand it. I understand how to use it, but there is no way I would have ever been able to come up with it.
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??I can't understand u
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i don't get it either.
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Is it just me or is anyone else having trouble trying to figure out what the question is?